MOTOR ACCIDENT
WOMAN AWARDED DAMAGES In the Supreme Court. Wellington, yesterday, a jury awarded to Mrs Elizabeth Marie Dailey, Belmont, damages totalling £794 6s 6d for the partial paralysis of her right hand, as the result of injury suffered in a motor accident.
Mrs Dailey claimed from the New Zealand Cab Company, Ltd., and Joseph Herbert Davey, taxi-driver. £99 6s 6d as special damages and £1750 as general damages. Mrs Dailey said that on July 21, 1937, at the intersection of Featherston and Waring Taylor Streets. Wellington, a car, in which she was a passenger, was struck by a taxi, owned by the New Zealand Cab Company, Ltd., and driven by the company’s employee, Davey. The accident occurred as the result of Davey’s negligence. She received a wound on the inner side of the upper right arm. as the result of which her hand later became partially paralysed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 6
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