DAMAGES AWARDED.
TWO MOTOR ACCIDENT CASES. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. General damages of £ISOO were awarded by a jury to John Victor Jacobson for injuries he suffered in a collition between his car and another at the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace. The defendant was Malcolm Ward Beaven, to whose negligence the jury found that the accident had been due. Myrtle Victoria Cameron, a school teacher, of Christchurch, was awarded damages totalling £345 in the Supreme Court for injuries suffered when knocked down by a motor-car. The defendant was a piano salesman, Conrad Gustav Hamann. The jury deliberated for 41 hours, finding that both parties to the accident were guilty of negligence, but that the defendant had the last opportunity of avoiding the accident.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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128DAMAGES AWARDED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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