APPEAL REJECTED
DAMAGES CLAIM UPHELD [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 18. The Court of Appeal to-day dismissed an appeal against the refusal by Mr Justice Ostler ■to enter judgment for defendants following a claim brought against the Otaki Borough Council and Walter Cole. Oh May 31 last a Palmerston North jury awarded Joseph Warrington Stevens, an infant, of Otaki, £370 14s damages for injuries received when he was knocked off his bicycle by a motor truck belonging to the Otaki Borough Council and driven by Walter Cole in Otaki on September 21, 1938. Following the verdict, the trial judge,_ Mr Justice Ostler, was asked to enter judgment for the defendants or grant a new trial on the grounds that the jury’s verdict was against the weight of the evidence.
Costs were allowed to-day against the council and Cole.
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Evening Star, Issue 23375, 19 September 1939, Page 3
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139APPEAL REJECTED Evening Star, Issue 23375, 19 September 1939, Page 3
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