HEAVY DAMAGES
FOR INJURED CYCLIST NEW TRIAL APPLIED FOB. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 2. Thomas Vernon Anson, a medical student, who claimed £lBO7- damages from the Black and White Cab Company, Ltd., for injuries sustained as a 'result of a collision with his motorcycle and a cab of the defendant company’s last Christmas, was awarded by •a jury, in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice MacGregor, £1157. The plaintiff alleged negligence against the cab driver, and the defendant company contended that Anson was on his wrong side. Anson and Phillip Ellis were riding along the Hutt Road on a wet night when the accident occurred, both being terribly injured and each losing a leg.
The defendant company’s counsel has applied for a now trial on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 6
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137HEAVY DAMAGES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 6
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