CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
INJURED MOTOR-CYCLIST. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 7. Damages amounting to £2132 13/6 were claimed by Roy Theodore Edser, a hairdresser of Lower Hutt, in the Supreme Court to-day as the result of a motor collision in which he lost a foot, had seven ribs and his spine fractured and received a perforated lung. The collision took place on Easter Monday last on a ramp at Lower Hutt. Edser was driving a motor-cycle and sidecar down the ramp when he collided near the bottom with a car driven by Violet Kells, second defendant in the action. The first defendant was Robert Kells, father of the second defendant and owner of the car. Edser alleged that the accident was due to Miss Kells driving on the wrong side of the road. This was denied by defendants who alleged that Edser had failed to keep to his correct side of the road. It was admitted, said plaintiff’s counsel, that Miss Kells was not and never had been the holder of a driver’s license. Evidence for defendant was still being heard when the Court adjourned till to-morrow.
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Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 8
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188CLAIM FOR DAMAGES Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 8
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