DAMAGES AWARD
MANAWARU COLLISION MOTORIST’S CLAIM SUCCEEDS ACTION IN SUPREME COURT After a retirement of less than an hour the jury in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, yesterday awarded £127 3s special damages and £IOO general damages in the case before Mr Justice Johnston in which a claim and counter-claim were heard. The case was the outcome of an accident at Manawaru last October, when a car and a lorry collided. Plaintiff was the car driver, Henry James Logan, farm hand, of Manawaru, who sought £142 special damages and £l5O general damages from William Osborne Tilsley, contractor, of Tahuna, who was the owner of the lorry. Tilsley’s counter-claim was for £l9 10s damages. Judgment was entered for plaintiff. Plaintiff was represented by Messrs J. F. Strang and K. L. Sandford, and the case for defendant was conducted by Mr H. T. Gillies. Evidence for defendant was given by R. H. Hart, the driver of the lorry, and Henry James Stratford Johnstone, insurance assessor, of Hamilton, produced a statement in which Logan said he was right on top of the truck before he saw it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 8
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183DAMAGES AWARD Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 8
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