VERDICT SET ASIDE
r JUDGE REVERSES DECISION SEQUEL TO MOTOR ACCIDENT (Per Press Association. Copyright). WELLINGTON, September 14. The jury's verdict in. favour of .Richard Park, plaintiff’ in an action (against Joseph Louis GvicUard, heard recently at the Supreme Court, was set a-side to-day by His Honor, Judge Blair, and judgement was entered for the defendant, The plaintiff was knocked down by the defendant’s car ct Napier in July last year, and* the Jyury awarded £264 7s special and £6OO general damages, After traversing the whole of the circumstances in relation to the jury’s findings, His Honor said that, in his opinion, it could not he said that the defendant was any more the effective cause of the accident than the plaintiff was.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1933, Page 5
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