DAMAGES CLAIMED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 5

DAMAGES CLAIMED

« SEQUEL TO BUS ACCIDENT An action for £llOO damages, £lOO of which was for hospital fees and medical expenses, was brought against the Bell Bus Company by Gertrude May Bradley in the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. Justice MacGregor. The claim was lor injuries alleged to have been suffered by Miss Bradley m October last when she was travelling as a passenger m a motor-omnibus owned by the defendant company and driven on their behalf by John . O’Callaghan. This motor-bus' collided with a telegiaph pole on the seaward side of the Hutt Road near Kaiwarra. Serious and permanent injuries were alleged to have been suffered by Miss Bradley. Pain, shock, and her injuries were the reasons for the claim, and the plaintiff alleged that the accident was caused through negligence on the part of the driver in that he attempted to nick up a packet of tickets, or other object, from the floor of the vehicle, nnd allowed the bus to deflect from its course. It was also alleged that O’Callaghan was not the holder of a driver’s license in the form prescribed by the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, and that he was not competent to drive, having been disabled by illness for several months, and only just recovered. The defendant company issued a general denial of all the allegations made. Mr. P. J. O’Regan appeared for Miss Bradley, and Mr. P. Cooke, with him Mr. A. J. Christie, for the defendant company. After some evidence was heard the case was adjourned until today.