MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1666, 5 February 1913, Page 4

MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS

ACTION FOR DAMAGES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.). , .■.'..■■■• Auckland, February. /i. '..':' The hearing of evidence in [an action "■ in which;the father of Phillip Roland .; Hnrtnell (an infant) claimed' from' Os. •wald James Molvcru the sum of £W Ips. ' special "damages, and .£3001) general dam-■■'.'■' ages, far injuries,, received' by'.. tlia llul : through being etruck by a motor-car ' owned by defendant, was • concluded at the Supremo Court to'diiy, Wore ..Tudgo Cooper and a jury. After retirement; tlia jury brought in a verdict for. ,£3OO general, :■. damages and thospccinl damages claimed, ,■■■ .ANOTHER.CASE.., ,'/' 'vV : '. (By Tclegraph.-Press. Ascoclfttlon'.) ':■'/ ':■ Onmaru,' February, i, '■''■■ A case was tried in the Supreme Court - to-day, ■. in which tho father of a boy named Fnrquhar sued a young -ma"' . named AVhitton, or in, the alternate, his father, for tho sum of JESQI as damages iu connection' with a '.motor-car accident,' by/ .-,■'■ which, tho boy Fnrquhar. was, alleged to ; , !'"■ have been injured. The . question ■, was .' whether the year was. oh its right side of tho road, and whether it was being ~; driven at a reasonable, rate of speed. Tho ■ case lasted all day, and into the evening. ;■ Tho jury gave a verdict for .£25 against' lx)th- defondants,; and tho Judge inti.mated that lu> would have to. decide whether the, ease was one. that should have been brought beforo -tho Supreme Court, as tho scale of costs would depend on. this. ■''.'.'■'"'.•'