DAMAGES AWARDED
FOR COLLISION ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 22. The jury found for plaintiff and awarded the full amount of damages, £653 12s, at the conclusion of the hearing yesterday of a claim for damages arising out of nn accident on 2nd July, 1929, when the plaintiff, Leslie Albert Redstone, 18, was knocked off a bicycle by a car driven by defendant, Frank James Gnrtshore),
The jury found the defendant negligent in driving at nn excessive speed and in a reckles smanner, and in failing to keep a proper lookout, and that plaintiff as negligent in riding a cycle without a light or rear reflector, but that the defendant could, up to the last moment have avoided the accident by the exercise of reasonable care. Counsel for defendant moved for a stay of execution, pending consideration of an application for a new trial. Justice Reed made an order, accordingly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1930, Page 5
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152DAMAGES AWARDED Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1930, Page 5
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