GIRL'S £1500 DAMAGES
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Sequel to School Bus Accident
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CHRISTCHURCH, Last Nighfc. General damages of £1500 were awarded to-day to a ten-year-old girl, Elizabeth Mary Trumper, who was severely injured when the Hawarden school bus crashed into a treo on May 10. The cause of the aecident, the jury held, was xiegligence of the driver, Alexander Hugh Millar. Plaintijf sued through her father, Angus Lllewellyn Trumper, farm managor, of Hawarden, the general / damage elaim being for £3000. Defendants were Alexander Hugh Millar, driver of the Hawarden consolidatod school bus at the time of the accident, and Eeroyd's Garage and Transport Co., • of Hawarden, There was no real distihetion between negligence and an error of judgment, said Mr Justice Northcroft, in.summingup. Negligence, indeed, might be described as a degree of errpr^ of judgment. * . ''One always wonders why in these .eases it is necessary to bring evidenco of a team of, doctors," said the Ju.dge. "It might well be considered that 'sufficient evidence could have been pSaeed before you by tlie doetor who performed tlie operation and was in charge of the case. As it was a team of three doctors was called."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 10
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