SUPREME COURT
INVERCARGILL SESSIONS [Peb United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 27. The Supreme Court sessions were opened to-day before Mr Justice Shu. There were no criminal cases for trial. Prisoners were sentenced as follows: Angus M'Neill, theft of two suras of each of £2O from the Riversdalo Post Office, released on probation for three years. Albert Sharp and Robert Summerville Lawrence, breaking and entering, each three years’ probation. A claim for £I,OOO general damages and £l2O 12s hospital fees was upheld by the jury in the case of John Herbison Kerr v. David Baird. Plaintiff, a schoolboy, was cycling along the Oroti Beach road to Invercargill on May 9 last, when defendant, the driver of a motor lorry, overtook him and run him down, inflicting severe injuries to his right leg, the calf being torn away. Medical evidence attested that the boy would probably lose his leg below the knee, and even if it were not amputated he would never regain the hill use of it.
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Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 14
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166SUPREME COURT Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 14
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