Clarke, Andre v Alexander Atkinson & Linson George Atkinson

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA

IN CIVIL DIVISION

CLAIM NO: HCV 51 08 of 2005

BETWEEN ' ANDRE CLARKE CLAl MANT

AND ALEXANDER ATKINSON lSDETFEN DANT

AND LINSON GEORGE ATKINSON 2"d DEFENDANT

Defendants unrepresented, not present.

Heard April 21 and 25, 2006

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McDonald J (Aq.1

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, I Assessment of Damages

On March 4, 2004 Andre Clarke was a passenger in a motor

vehicle which was being driven at a fast speed along the Smithfield

Main Road in the parish of Westmoreland. It got out of control and

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collided into a bank and overturned.

He was pulled out of the car and initially taken to the Savanna-

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la-mar Hospital and later transferred to .the Cornwall Regional

Hospital. He was there for 14 days and diagnosed with a fracture to

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his right femur1 I