A RAILWAY FATALITY.
WIDOW AWARDED £3OO. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Wednesday. The Supreme Court was occupied yesterday and to-day with hearing a ease in which Margaret Corliss sued tile Marlborough Timber Company for £2OOO damages for the death of hex husband, John Corliss, at Oporiri Valley, when the Company J s engine was derailed. Another case was also brought in regard to a man named Anderson who was killed at the same time and place. It was agreed that the evidence in the one case should be applicable to the other, the same verdict, if any, to be accepted. Considerable evidence was called, with the object of showing that the defendants' tram, line from whioh. the engine was derailed 'T*as defective,? Uhat ceased, though he had knocked off >»>rk for the day, was still in the employ of the company while on the way from the bush to the-mill; and that the speed of the engine was excessive. The defence was that the line was a suitable one, and that the deceased was on the engine at his own risk. The Court gave a verdict for £3OO.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 297, 14 December 1911, Page 4
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187A RAILWAY FATALITY. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 297, 14 December 1911, Page 4
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