NO REASON GIVEN
CASE WITHDRAWN FROM JURY. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 20. A singular development occurred in the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which Margaret M’Beath was suing for £2500 damages against Roy Rankin, Wallace and Fleming and Co., arising out of the death of her husband, the driver of a baker’s cart, following a collision with a motor-car. The case came on as a re-hearing on the ground that the verdict for £1250 damages at tlie previolus session was against the weight of evidence. Several witnesses were examined yesterday and when the court resumed counsel for plaintiff said that circumstances had arisen which counsel agreed rendered it proper that the case be withdrawn from the jury and set down for trial. Later, by consent of both parties, his Honor discharged the jury and ordered a new trial at the next session, remarking: “Counsel have told me in Chambers the reason for the application, and there is no need to give that reason here,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1930, Page 2
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164NO REASON GIVEN Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1930, Page 2
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