£1298 DAMAGES.
FOR LOSS OF LEG. (miss ABSOCIATIOK TZLEGRAK.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 7. The full damages claimed, £1298, were awarded Thomas McLeod White in the Supreme Court to-day. White was riding pillion on- his brother s motor-cycle when tbey collided with tho Takapuna Company's bus near Waitara. Plaintiff's leg was smashed and had to be amputated. A peculiar position arose when it was discovered that one juryman' was a member of a firm acting as booking agent for the bus company. _ The Court, on counsel's objection, dismissed the juryman and the case prooeeOed before a panel of eleven.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 11
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