CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
I (IT TEMGturH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WANGANUI, 10th September. For the past three days the Supreme Court has been occupied in the hearing of a claim for £1000 damages by Mrs.. Alice Meehan against Dick and Flyger, a contracting firm. The action was a sequel to a fatal accident which occurred to plaintiff's husband while engaged by defendants'in lifting a house by means of jacks. The jury found that defendants were guilty of negligence in carrying out the work, and awarded the plaintiff £600 damages.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 4
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87CLAIM FOR DAMAGES Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 4
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