HEAVY DAMAGES.
FATALITY AT RAILWAY CROSSING. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. A verdict for the full amount claimed was given by the jury in the case in which Dudley Bruce Hill, a sheepfaTmer of Fern Hill, Hawke'e Bay, sued the Railway Department for £IOOO damages as the result of injuries received in a collision between a motor car and a locomotive at Ka'ukapakapa level-crossing on the Helensville line on January 14th. Plaintiff alleged that the Department had been negligent in the upkeep of the crossing. After a retirement of two hours, the jury brought in a verdict for plaintiff, assessing the damages in respect of injury at . £looo—the full amount claimed.
The points of law to .be argued were reserved for the Court of Appeal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 6
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127HEAVY DAMAGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 6
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