DAMAGES £4O
?OR WOMAN ■ » ttr.
To what extent is a woman entitled to compensation for a ■permnnen't facial disfigurement? ' 7 This was a question which Mr G. N. Morris, S.M., Was’called tin to decide in the 'WhsbigarCi Magistrate Ohiirt when a civil claim'‘for £IOO general damages whs brought by Mi% Myrtle Prims,'bf Otuhi, apitist JT. K. Bradhey as the result of a nlbtor' accident.
The magistrate considered Mrs Price ought to get £°. r pain an d suffering. -HovvcVer, the eiit was' only a surface one, and he did not think that the pain and suffering involved whs serious. As far as the disfigurement was concerned, Mr Morris said that oven whon he had bben told where to look ho had not <bden able to detect any sign of facih'l paralysis. Mr Mortis fibred' the damages at £4O, plus' the £7 12s 6d spfecial damages awarded last hearing. ’Cost’s athounted to £l2 13 s 6d. ’■ f
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19341227.2.147
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 12
Word Count
155DAMAGES £40 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 12
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.