DAMAGES AWARDED.
* SEQUEL TO FATAL COLLISION. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, November 12. Damages amounting to £IOSO were awarded Mrs Rose May. Blake in the Supreme Court to-day in her claim lor £4OOO against Lawson John August, insurance canvasser, of Lower Hutt, following an accident which resulted in the death of her husband, L'Yancis Edmund Blake. With tho exception of one incident oil the day in question August said he was unable to-day to recollect anything of the accident. For three weeks he was unconscious, and medical evidence was called to show that in such cases a lapse of memory was not uncommon. He denied that an affliction of the left eyelid affected his vision. The jury deliberated for three and a half hours
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 8
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