DAMAGES CLAIM
RESULT OF COLLISION
(By Telegraph—Per Tress Association.)
WELLINGTON, November 25
A claim is proceeding in the Supreme Court in which £552 los damages is sought (from Alary Wilton, a milk vendor, of*Lower Mutt; by the guardian of Louis Shardlow, an apprentice, who collided with an unlighted lorry on the night of December 4th, 1928, while riding a bicycle, and had his skull fractured. According to Doctor Lynch, in evidence a piece of hone was removed soon after the injured lad’s admission to the hospital. It was impossible to say what tlie effect of tlie accident would lie.
Denying negligence the defence says the lorry was iinlighted owing to a failure iii the ignition system. Contributory negligence is alleged in the pace at which the lad was riding and not keeping a proper look-out, and having no light on his bicycle. The lorry was drawn aside, standing partly on the grass.
During the proceedings. His Honour, the Chief Justice remarked that it seemed to him the true ground of action was not negligence, but nuisance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1929, Page 5
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