HEAVY DAMAGES
SEQUEL TO COLLISION
(Per United Press Association.)
Wanganui, May 20.
After a retirement of three hours tonight at the end of the third hearing bf the case in which Herbert Frederick Benson claimed £5OO general damages and £134 special damages from Kwong Chong as a result of a motor collision, the jury awarded £lOOO general damages and £134 special damages. In February last Mr Justice Reed and jury awarded the full claim of £634, but counsel moved for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. To-night the jury found that defendant’s driver was driving at an excessive speed, but. not on the wrong side of the road. Plaintiff was not negligent in cutting the corner of the street, but was negligent in attempting to cross another street of the intersection. The jury found that if both were negligent, neither up to the last moment could have avoided the accident. Defendant’s driver could have avoided the accident by' the exercise of ordinary care.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19300521.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
173HEAVY DAMAGES Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in