DEATH OF A CHILD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 9

DEATH OF A CHILD

RUN OVER BY CAR NONSUIT IN DAMAGES CLAIM (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A non-suit was entered by Mr. Justice Blair in the 'Supreme Court to-day in the case in which the guardian of Richard Romanos, years, claimed £750 general damages and £44 special damages against Thomas Albert Wells, merchant, Wellington, following an accident in which the boy w'as run. over by a motor car in Adelaide road on April 3. His Honor said that the njotorist saw two boys on the street, and immediately jammed on his brakes. He saw' one boy 's.run back to the footpath, but was not sure about the other. This bov was in front of liim. In Scotland it had been held that a l>oy of four was capable of knowing that he must not run in front of a moving vehicle, and His Honor thought that children in New Zealand were just as intelligent at years as they were in Scotland at four years, although even that might not be 100 flattering to New Zealand. He thought that it was his plain duty to withdraw the case from the jury, and he accordingly entered a non-suit against plaintiff with costs.