APPEAL COURT
claim for damages WELLINGTON, Monday. The Court of Appeal this afternoon commenced the hearing of an appeal from the decision of Mr. Justice Reed in giving judgment to defendant in respect of a claim for damages for injuries sustained in a motor accident. The plaintiff, James Gray Wight, while employed by the Public Works Department in road-widening work, was struck and injured by the rear portion of a lorry owned -by the Cunningham Carrying Company. He brought an action against the company alleging that the driver was negligent in that he failed to keep a proper lookout and managed the lorry unskillfully. At the trial the jury found that the lorry driver was negligent in failing to see "that the man he saw on the road reached saf ety" and awarded plaintiff £453 damages. On a motion for judgment for defendant pursuant to leave to appeal being reserved, Mr. Justice Reed held that no faets had been established from which negligence on the parfc of the lorry driver might be reasonably assumed, and accordingly ordered judgment to be entered for defendant with costs. Plaintiff now appeals against this decision. The court adjourned until to-morrow.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 October 1931, Page 3
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