AN UNUSUAL CASE.
HEAVY DAMAGES AWARDED. FOR INJURY TO EYE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Stephen Stewart Spiers, share-milker, of Hikutaia, sued Joseph Johnson, carrier, Ngaruawahia, for £l5OO damages for injury to an eye, caused through a prick from a gorse thorn received whilst riding in defendant’s motor’bus. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for the full amount claimed. Judgment was entered accordingly. The evidence showed that the motor-’bus was engaged to take a party home from a football match. The ’bus belonged to Johnson and was hired to another firm for the trip, Jugh, an employee of Johnson, acting as driver. During the journey, tho ’bus went on the side of the road, with the result that a thorn pricked plaintiff’s eye. The jury added a rider that legislation should be introduced to compel owners of property to clear their frontages of noxious weeds.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 4
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151AN UNUSUAL CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 4
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