VALUE OF TROTTER
TRAINERS DISAGREE £IOO DAMAGES AWARDED (Special to ‘SHE SU2?) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The owners of the trotting mare, Florrie Huon, which was killed in a street collision last year, claimed £6OO damages in the Supreme Court today. The jury awarded only £IOO with costs *for the issue of the writs, £6 4s, altogether costs being given for the defendant.
Frederick Martin, of Christchurch, a press agent, and Maurice O’Connell, of Tai Tapu, saddler, were claiming damages from Maurice Kenneth Whale, of Christchurch, clerk, as the result of a collision on November 2, 1927, between a motor-car driven by the. defendant and a mare and gig driven by Frank Needham, as the result of which the mare had to be destroyed. Defendant admitted negligence, but thought £IOO the true value of the mare. Maurice O’Connell said he paid £2OO for the mare, and now doubted if he would have taken £6OO for her. The mare won £ 50 in stakes during the one season she was raced. Harry Frost and James N. Clark, trainers and drivers, estimated the horse's value as a good maiden at about £6OO, but James Bryce, trotting trainer and driver, said that from £SO to £75 would be a great price for the mare. ___________
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 13
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208VALUE OF TROTTER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 13
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