£1000 AWARDED IN INSURANCE CLAIM
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CHEISTCHUECH, Last Night. The sum of £1,000 claimed by Ernest Leonard Harrison-Wilkie from tlie Victoria Insurance Co. under a private motor vehicle insurance policy taken out with the company by liis late wife was awarded the plaintifly iu tlie Supreme Court this morning on the evidence of three medical witnesses who agreed that most probably the infeetion of tetanus when Mrs. Har-rison-Wilkie was injured in falling from a car occurred directly from the fall, and not during subsequent treatment at home. Mr. Justico Northcroft held that the physical injuries included an abrasive wound and the importation into that wound of dirt whicli contained the germ or spores of tetanus. The tetanus was part of the injury itself, and not something different supervening or resulting from the injuries. The languagc of an exception in the policy was mappropriate to exclude a disease arising from the aeeident. It was itself oue of the injuries, and not merely a "result of the injuries." , i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 5
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