PETITION OF EIGHT
FULL AMOUNT AWARDED
The petition of right brought against the Crown by Horace John Moon, a labourer, for £2000 damages, resulted in a verdict in his favour for the full amount being, returned by the jury on Saturday. The action was a sequel to an accident which occurred at the Moera railway workshops last May, and in which one mau was killed and three others were injured. Mr. Justice Ostler was on the Bench. Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared for the suppliant, and Mr. P. S. K. Macassey, with him Mr. C. Evans-Scott, for the Crown.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 8
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99PETITION OF EIGHT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 8
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