UNUSUAL ALLEGATIONS IN SUPREME COURT CASE

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 35, 11 February 1937, Page 8

UNUSUAL ALLEGATIONS IN SUPREME COURT CASE

Accident That Cost Motor-cyclist a Leg FOXTON MAN’S CLAIM FOR £2784 DAMAGES. Allegations by the plaintiff that immediately after the accident he was asked to “hush it up,” and to “keep it from the police,” and allegations by a witness for the defence that plaintiff asked after the collision to have his motor-cycle “hidden in the lupins at the side of the road,” were mado in the Palmerston North Supreme Court yesterday during the hearing of a claim for nearly £3OOO damages as sequel to a motor collision between two poorly lighted vehicles on the Foxton-Hima-tangi highway. The case was heard before His Honour Mr Justice Johnston, with Mr H. R. Cooper representing plaintiff and Mr A. M. Ongley defendant. The following jury was empanelled: Aiessrs E. A. Shackleton (foreman), A. A. Coles, A. G. Brown, E. C. Hatnbling, M. Abraham, S. D. Alcock, G. W. B. Archibald, W. Pirie, D. J. Power, N. L. E. Munn, H. Rainforth, D. G. Cornish. Plaintiff was Robin Sponcer Chrystall, a farmer of llimatangi, a married man with one child, who claimed from Brian Leslie Everton, Foxton butcher, £284 special damages and £2500 general damages. Chrystall alleged that on December 10, 1935, a car owned by Everton and driven by George Joseph Lamb, as his agent, driving towards Foxton from Himatangi, collided with a motor-cycle ridden by plaintiff in the opposite direction. The accident, declared the statement of claim, was uue to negligence of Lamb in that he drove on the wrong side, had no lights on his car, had brakes so defective as to bo useless, and drove at a speed excessive