CLAIM FAILS.
SEQUEL TO MOTOR FATALITY. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 25. Returning a verdict for the defendants, a jury i it the Supremo Court at Wellington to-day rejected a claim by George Albert Kendall Williams, company manager of Christchurch, for £4037 5s Gd damages for the loss ot his wife, Emily Elizabeth Williams, who died in Wellington on August 25 from injuries she received when she was knocked down, by a motor-car in Brooklyn Road near Washington Avenue a, month earlier.
The plaintiff brought the action on behalf of himself and his four children. The defendants were David Norman Costley, a. clerk, driver of the car, and his father, James Costley, a foreman, owner of the car, both ot Wellington. The plaintiff alleged that the driver had been negligent. I)i support of the claim it was explained that the plaintiff’s youngest child required attention which his mother had given him and which a person would now have to be employed to give. The defendants denied that the driver had been negligent, and alleged that the accident was a result of negligence on the part of Mrs Williams.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 9
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