ACCIDENT ON ROAD
PUBLIC WORKS NEGLIGENCE FARMER AWARDED DAMAGES (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, May 16. Holding that the Crown had failed to prove contributory negligence, Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day awarded £338 10s special damages to John Randall Sellers, a farmer, of Aria, who had sought £4BB 10s damages against the Crown The claim was made as the result of an accident on the Great South road near Te Kuiti on November 2. 1938, the suppliant alleging that the negligence of the Public Works Department had caused his car to run off the road into a cutting.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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103ACCIDENT ON ROAD Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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