PLAINTIFF WINS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1932, Page 6

PLAINTIFF WINS

0 cilarge against insurances. (Per'. Press Association — Copyright J ii WELLINGTON, August' 16. ’ -..Reseirved judgment, running into thirty;; pages/in favour of plaintiff, was delivered by His Honour; 1 Mr Justice Reed, to-day, in the case heard in tli<£ Supremo Court in June, in which Mrs/Elizabeth Ivy Johnson, alleged that Lefyiiusband, John Randolph ,3fohn4nL after having : Aelib.eraltjely caused her left -leg to be- crushed by a trkih at the tOhaiu railway crossing, forged ' insurance documents and obtained certain moneys under two accident? insurance policies held by her. " Ate; Johnson claimed £260 from the 'Commercial Union Assurance Co., PiS-i £SOO from the Australasian T. "aVid; Er. Mutual Life Assurance Society, : Ltd. y ’*'His. Honour gave judgment fo- Mrs Jolipson against .the Commercial Union for £245 10s and against the T. and G. Society for the full amount of £SOO, together with costs. His Honour' .said he r*ougnt that the . evidence was established if’at Mr? fSohnshh received .her injury by jumping -Out !d||he.r husband’s car and fr.’lihg on the .yhi'-wav line. On the question of forgery, His Honour said that he had weighed and anxiously considered all evideiite on the point, and, although, with ||gret that the 'insurance companies shofil|i| be defrauded, ihe said he had comefto th-e conclusion, without any doubfc. : ‘ that the contested documents were forgeries. As to legil questions raisjd-sbv the defence he‘was of the. minion that' they afforded no answer to plaintiff’s claini .