£1892 DAMAGES AWARDED IN MOKAI TRACTOR ACCIDENT CASE
. A jury in the Supreme Court at Hamilton on Xovember 2 awarded £1892 damages to a former tractor driver who was involved in an accident while ploughing on a Maori Affairs Department block near Mokai in October, 195.3. II e is Ilobert James Pearce, aged 29, married, of Rotorua. Pearce claimed £2887 7s ld as special and general damages. This ftgure was reduced by 33 1-3 per cent, the figure the jury fixed as Pearce' s contributory negligence in the accident. Defendant in the action was L. M. Saunders and Co., Ltd., agricultural contractors, of Tokoroa, who einployed Pearce as a tractor driver on the ploughing contraet at Mokai Pearce was injured when his tractor, which lie and another driver were trying to extricate from the edge of a gully, overturned.
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Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 199, 18 November 1955, Page 2
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139£1892 DAMAGES AWARDED IN MOKAI TRACTOR ACCIDENT CASE Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 199, 18 November 1955, Page 2
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