MOTORIST TO PAY
| LIABILITY ADMITTED j £1932 DAMAGES AWARD | MOTOR-CYCLIST’S CLAIM (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Liability was admitted in the .Supreme Court yesterday when Victor Emanuel Clark, a meter-reader employed by the electricity department of the Wellington City Corporation, claimed £ISOO general damages and £602 2s 10:1 special damages from Arthur John Rigg, managing-director, Wellington.
A jury of 12 was empanelled before Mr. Justice Blair to assess the damages. Clark was awarded the full amount of the general damages and
£432 special damages. The claim arose from an accident on October 18, 1938, when the plaintiff’s motor-cycle collided with the defendant's car at the junction of Miramar avenue and Aberdeen quay. The plaintiff received a double fracture of the left thigh, a damaged knee-joint and shock, and afterwards dilation of the stomach developed. He would be unable to return to work until July ol' next year, it was stated, but ho would then be permanently crippled. He would be unable to bend his knee beyond a right-angle and would have the equivalent of only half the use of his left leg.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 8
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183MOTORIST TO PAY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 8
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