£1000 DAMAGES
SEQtTEL TO A FATALITY. (Hl' TFLEGItAPJt-PHI.SS WSOCIATION.) GISBCTRNE, This Day. In the Supreme Court,' in the case Hepzibah Cote v. Richard-on and Co., a claim for £1500 damages-for the loss of her husband, Rupert Cole, who wns killed whilst unloading railway iron 'from the steamer Ripple, the jury returned a verdict for £1000. holding that ihe negligent method was adopted to discharge the rails, that the lighting was insufficient, and that such negligence was tho Tault of the company, and the real direct cause of the accident ; also tlinfc deceased was not guilty of any nrp.li<rcnce.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 7
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