DAMAGES CLAIM

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1929, Page 1

DAMAGES CLAIM

AGAINST MOTOR OWNERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. Concluding evidence was heard by Air Justice MacGregor, and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day in the ’case in which Robert Bowes Kirkland, by occupation a plasterer, of Wellington, claimed damages to the extent of £1167 from John Delacourt Merrett, company manager, and Henry Stanley McLucas, by occupation, salesman, both of Wellington. The claim arose out of a- motor accident on the Pori-rua-Johnsonville Road last June, when plaintiff, who was travelling in the defendant (McLucas’s) car was injured, after a collision in which defendant Merrett’s car ran into the rear of McLucas’s car. The issues were submitted to one jury (who were out from 5.45 p.m. until 8.85 p.m.). and on these judgment was given for £592 15s, with costs, in favour of plaintiff Kirkland against defendant Merrett, and in 'favour of defendant McLucas with costs. A claim was made in the Supreme Court by George Everson, of Petone, against the Canadian Knight and Whippet Motor Coy., Wellington, for £213 Is 6d special and £BOO general damages, the' result of a collision in the Hutt Road on June 22, of a ca.r with plaintiff’s motor cycle, the allegation being that the. driver of the car was a servant, or agent of the defendant Company and was. unskilful, unlicensed a.nd guilty of negligence. The defence is a denial of all the points raised.