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JURY FAILS TO AGRTE. MOTOR ACCIDENT CLAIM. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 17. After a retirement of over five hours a special jury in a motor accident claim in the Supreme Court to-day announced that it had failed to come to an agreement . The foreman told the Chief Justice that there was no prospect of an agreement and His Honour granted leave to apply for a new trial. The case arose out of a motor collision in Lower Hutt on Labour Day, 1932, when three children, Eunice, Patricia and William Goss, travelling .in a car driven by Eddie George Shearer, were injured. The children by - the guardians ad litem, Robert Howard Taylor and Frederick George Goss claimed together £2300 general damages and Frederick George Goss £BO 2s 6d special damages from James Russell, driver of the second vehicle involve! in the accident.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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