“UNREASONABLE CLAIM”
ACTION FOR DAMAGES SEQUEL TO COLLISION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “In all my experience I have never seen so large a sum claimed for an injury. The amount seems to ino to be altogether unreasonable,” Mr. Justice Ostler remarked lo the jury in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, just before it retired to consider a claim for £274 8s 6d special damages and £2500 general damages made by Ernest Drew, a packer, of Wellington, agaijist Godfrey Power Clapcott, an insurance inspector, of Masterton. The ease arose out of a collision on tile old Porirua road near Kaiwarra on Christinas Eye last. The jury returned a unanimous verdict awarding plaintiff £265 18s 6d special damages, and £l5O general damages. Plaintiff alleged that while lie was riding his motor cycle on the Porirua road, defendant, by driving his car negligently arid carelessly, collided with him, severely injuring him and damaging the motor cycle. Defendant denied that he had been negligent in any way, and urged that the sole cause of the accident was the negligence of plaintiff and excessive speed.
His Honor reserved his decision on a motion for a new. trial, and on the question of a nonsuit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 10
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