NEGLIGENCE NOT PROVED
ACTION AGAINST WELLINGTON COUNCIL (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Finding that negligence had not been proved, Mr Barton, S.M., in a reserved judgment, disallowed a claim for damages against the Wellington City Council in a case arising out of injuries received by Margaret Robinson Koppert, when she was struck by a trolley head which fell from one of the Corporation tram cars. The Magistrate remarked that the true position was that the slipping of the trolley head from its pole, and the, subsequent breaking of the safety rope did not point to defective gear and lack of due care and skill, but seemed rather to illustrate the working of a series of safeguards designed to meet the contingency of a trolley wheel leaving the wire.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 15 January 1931, Page 4
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129NEGLIGENCE NOT PROVED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 15 January 1931, Page 4
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