DAMAGES CLAIM FAILS.
£4037 FOR LOSS OF WIFE. CAFE OF FOUR CHILDREN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday. Returning a verdict for the defendants, a jury in the Supreme Court at Wellington to-day rejected a claim by George Albert Kendall Williams, company manager, of Christchurch, for £40:57 damages for the loss of his wife, Emily Elizabeth Williams, who died in Wellington on August 2.~> as a consequence of injuries she received when knocked down by a motor car in Brooklyn Road, a month earlier. The plaintiff brought the action for the benefit of himself and his four children. The defendants were David Norman Costley, clerk, driver of the car. and his father, James Costley, foreman, owner of the car, both of Wellington. Plaintiff alleged that the driver had been negligent. In support of the claim it was explained that the plaintiff's youngest child required attention, which his mother had given him and which a jiersnn would now have to be. employed to give. Defendant denied that the driver had been negligent and alleged that the accident was the result of negligence by Mrs. Williams.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 14
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