SAHID JAFFA AND TAME SESAY
V.
THOMAS ELIAS
Foster-Sutton, P. This was an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of Beoku-Betts, J., by which he awarded the plaintiff .£2,700 general damages and .£200 12s. 0d. special damages in an action for negligence.
The respondent is a shopkeeper carrying on business as such at Tiama in the Protectorate of Sierra Leone, the first appellant is the owner of the motor lorry which caused the respondent's injuries and the second appellant is the person employed by the first appellant as driver of the vehicle.
Shortly put the facts are that on the 15th September, 1951, the respondent was walking along the side walk at the corner of Oxford and Wilberforce Streets, Freetown, when the motor vehicle in question proceeding from the direction of Wilberforce Street left the road, mounted the side walk and pinned the respondent against some iron bars which had been placed by the side of a house adjoining the side walk. As a result of the collision the respondent was in hospital over five months, injuri…