JURY COULD NOT AGREE
Failure to agree was reported by the jury after a retirement of four and a half hours to consider a verdict yesterday in the Supreme Court action, George Arnold Navsmith, bushman (Mr. Finlay and Mr. Wallace) v. J. W. Welsh, bush owner (Mr. Fleming) and Robert Thomas Belk, bush foreman (Mr. Towle), a claim for £2500 general and £417 special damages in respect to injuries arising out of an accident to a motor car driven by Belk and owned by Welsh. The foreman assured Mr. Justice Fair that even a three-fourths majority could not be obtained, and the jury was discharged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 124, 28 May 1942, Page 5
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