NO LACK OF CARE
INJURY BY GOLF BALL £SOO CLAIM FAILS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGGTON, this day. Reserved judgment for the defendant was given by Mr. E. Page, S.M.* to-day, in the claim of Ernest Edward Edwards against Beatrice Mehaffey; for £SOO damages for the loss of an eye caused by a golf ball driven by the defendant on the Manor Park course. The Magistrate held that the evidence did not disclose any lack of reasonable care on the defendant’s part in having failed to notice the plaintiff prior to making her shot. Having made the shot, and then catching sight of him, she did her best to save him from injury. 'The magistrate also held that the plaintiff had not established that even on the basis that the defendant had, or should have, seen the plaintiff before playing the shot she was guilty of negligence in failing to warn him before playing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 16
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153NO LACK OF CARE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 16
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