ACCIDENT CLAIM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 64, 8 December 1937, Page 6

ACCIDENT CLAIM

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Jury Awards £2500 Damages ne;w trial asked for

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HAMILTON, This Day. A verdict for the full amount claimed, £2508 4/7, against both defendants, was returned by_ the jury in favour of plaintiff in a case convpleted before Mr Jujtice Callan in the Supreme Court at Hamilton, in which Charles Scivier Goodwill, garage proprietor, of Te Puke, seught damnges from Kathleen Saulprey, Ngaruawahia, and Edwin James Parry, farmer, as the outcome ot an accident on the Main South road, near Horotiu, on January 27. The circumstances were that plaintiff was a passenger in a car being driven by Doris Mary Hudson from Te Puke to " Auckland. Mrs Saulbrey, driving south, was about to turn into Duxfield road. Horotiu, when she was overtaken by a car driven by PaTry. There was a collision between Parry 's and Mrs Saulbrey 's cars, and a collision between Pairy 's car and the car in which plaintiff was seated. Plaintiff received seyere injuries and alleged negligence on the part of both Mrs Saulbrey and Parry. For" the defence, the allegations of negligence were denied, and, as" an alternative, contributory negligence on the part of : tlie' driver of plaintiff 's ■ car was alleged. When the jury returned its verdict, a new trial was a'sked for and judgment was deferred, pending the hearing of legal argument.