DAMAGES AGAINST COUNCIL
HUSBAND AWARDED £1250. FOR LOSS OF HIS WIFE. (B3 - Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Damages to the amount of £1250 were awarded by the jury in the Supreme Court this afternoon against the Ashburton County Council in the case in which Leo Robert Stoddart, farmer, of Willowby, claimed from the council £2000 damages in respect of the death of his wife, Elizabeth May Gladstone Stoddart. Mrs- Stoddart was killed on the main South Road, just over the southern end of the Ashburton Traffic Bridge, on the evening of August 18, when a gig she was driving collided with a temporary fence erected by the council.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 1 December 1925, Page 9
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