SUPREME COURT CASE
MR GREGORY’S CLAIM FOR . 1 JUAJAGES. SETTLED OUT OF COURT. The case of Gregory v. the King, a claim for £2OOO damages, has been settled out of Court, the Crown making an offer to pay £IOOO damages and £SOO expenses—£l,soo in all—in settlement of the claim. The case was set doivn for hearing at Wellington next week, and counsel and the witnesses were leaving to-morrow for the hearing. Messrs Park and Murdoch were the licitors for the plaintiff, for whom > Sir John Findlay, K.C., had been
retained. The case arose out of tinaccident on the Hokitika river railway bridge ,when a motor car and the Ross train came info collision, apd Mrs Gregory was vg'.y seriously injured in the accident. Mrs Gregory ig poiy ip fhp United States. The proceedings w’ere ipifiafed on the legal opinion given by Messrs Park and Murdoch af the time of the accident as to the liability of the Crown, under the circumstances in fldiicji the collision occurred.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1919, Page 2
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166SUPREME COURT CASE Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1919, Page 2
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