LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY
BUST AGAINST THE KING. APPEAL TO SET ASIDE VERDICT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Monday. Legal argument is being heard today in Lho Supreme 'Court in the ease of Barbara Canning against the King, a claim for £2UUO in respect of a fatal accident at the Porirua railway crossing in October last. ■ When the ease came before the Court last sessions the jury awarded supplicant damages, amounting to £IOOO. ' ' The Solicitor-General is now moving for judgment for the Grown on the grounds that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the Grown causing the accident, that undisputed evidence, taken as a whole, proved that the accident was in fact caused by the negligence of deceased himself, and that, in any event, the petitioner’s right to recover damages was barred by deceased’s failure to comply with certain provisions of section 10 of the Government Railway Amendment Act, 1913.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15274, 26 June 1923, Page 5
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152LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15274, 26 June 1923, Page 5
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