CYCLIST CLAIMS £1223

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 11

CYCLIST CLAIMS £1223

SEQUEL TO COLLISION NEGLIGENCE ALLEG ED (Ptir Press Association.) CnRTSTU]I HIGH, this day. A case in which a cyclist asked £1223 damages against a city firm was heard in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Johnston and a jury. The plaintiff was Otto August Danholt, of Christchurch, a motor car painter. The defendants were Charles Begg and Company, piano and radio dealers. In the statement of claim, it was alleged that on October 31. the plaintiff was cycling east along Oxford terrace, and as he crossed Madras street intersection a delivery van driven by Robert Herman Lloyd, an agent of the defendant company, going north along Madras street, was so 1 negligently and unskilfully driven that, it collided with trio plaintiff, causing injury and financial loss.

The defence was a general denial, with an additional assertion that the plaintiff was negligent in that he failed to l keep a proper look-out, failed to turn to avoid the impact, and failed to slow down. (Proceeding)