SLIPPED ON SICKLE
-Prees Aisociatiin.)
Giri Wins Civil Claim
(B» TeleeraDfi-
CHEIST CHUHCH, This Day. A girl who was injured through walking on a sickle lying on the side of the road outside a residence at Hanmer Springs last January, succoeded in an action for damages in the Christchurch Magistrate 's Court yesterday against -t.he owner of the sickle. The •Magistrate, Mr H. A. Young, attributed negligence ou tho part of the plaiutifif and awarded damages amounting to £112 4/-. The action was hrought hy Joy Wooller against Hedley James Peek for £100 general damages and £64 2/- special damages. It was claimed that Peek had negligently left the sickle in a public road. The girl had walked down tho road to noin her parents and had stepped on tho sickle which twisted, cutting a tendon in lior leg. An operation had been nocessarv. The caso for tho defence was that there had been eontrilmtory liegligonee. "I arn satisfied that there was no want of care on the pa»rt of the plaintiff," said the Magistrate.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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