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Fender ,Robin v Joanna Reid
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA
IN COMMON LAW
SUIT NO. C.L 1997lF163
BETWEEN ROBIN FENDER
AND JOANNA REID
PLAINTIFF
DEFENDANT
Mr. Andre Earle and Miss K. Larmond instructed by Rattray Patterson Rattray for the
Plaintiff.
Mr. Lowell Morgan instructed by Miss C. Minto of Nunes, Scholefield DeLeon and Co.
for the Defendant.
Heard: December 3.4. and 7.2001
HARRISON J
The Action
The plaintiffs action is one in Negligence and she is seeking to recover damages for her
motorcar that was involved in a motor vehicle accident.
Summary of the evidence
This accident occurred on Friday the 1" March 1996 at Citibank car park, Kingston. At
the material time the plaintiffs Suzuki Swift motorcar was parked on the lower level of
the third floor.
The defendant testified that she had parked her Daihatsu Charade motorcar in an assigned
slot on the upper level of the third floor during the course of the morning but had left the
car park at about 12:OO noon. She returned at about 1:30 p: m and had parked in the same
slot. On her way to her office at Citibank, Knutsford Boulevard, a car washer spoke to
her but she told him that the car was already washed on the Monday. He was the said
person who had washed it but was unable to clean the interior at that time. She stated
however, that she had not given him the keys for the car.