DAMAGES AWARDED.
SEQUEL TO RIMUTAKA WILT, ACCIDENT. LEAVE GIVEN TO APPLY FOR NEW TRIAL. WELLINGTON, May 24. Damages totalling £1704 were awarded in the Supreme Court yesterday to Thomas Walton Robertson, a former Post and Telegraph linesman who was injured in an accident on the Rimutaka Hill on February 18, 1935. Defendant: was Ling Sing, of Greytown, whose lorry collided with the plaintiff ’s motor cycle. The claim was for £384 special and £1750 general damages, the jury awarding the full amount of special damages and £1320 general damages. Leave to apply for a new trial was granted.—'(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 25 May 1936, Page 5
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