COMPENSATION CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1932, Page 2

COMPENSATION CASE

ACCIDENT TO CYCLIST

IMPORTANT LEGAL ASPECTS

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BLENHEIM, December 8

At the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Blair, there was commenced a civil action which will have important legal aspects before it is finally disposed of. By arrangement these will be dealt with at Wellington, the jury in the Court having only to decide two points—whether an accident, which was the basi s of a claim, occurred through a bicycle slipping on the rails of a private siding ; and what measure of the plaintiff had sustained .—all of the other aspects being left for argument later.

The plaintiff was Andrew Wilson, of Blenheim, and the defendants the 3Jew Zealand Loan and Merccnhle Agency Co., Ltd. The statement of claim tet out that on August 28, 1931, the plaintiff war totally disabled as the result of an accident in Sinclair Street t when a bl- - which he was riding was upset through contact with one of the rails of the railway siding leading to the Company’s stores. Plaintiff claimed special damages; 63 weeks wages at £2 15s per week (£173 ss); hospital and medical expenses, £lll 3s and general damages, £ISOO. The total claim was thus £1784 Bs.

The jury returned a verdict for £784 3*, and tho.catfe was adjourned sine die for legal argument in 'Wellington.