DEATH OF SON
PARENTS AWARDED DAMAGES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, October 18,
The.hearing of a claim for £1500 general damages under the Death by Accident Compensation Act, 1908, and £36 6s special damages, occupied his Honour Mr. Justice1 Kennedy and a jury in the Supreme Court this afternoon. The plaintiffs were Robert McKee ' Sullivan,^ school teacher, Dunedin, and his wife, Hilda .Emelia Sullivan, and the claim, which was against Cleary's Otaso Bottle Stores, Ltd., was the sequel to a fatality at Macandrqw Bay on April 20, when the plaintiff's. son was killed by a motorlorry. The claim for special damages was admitted by the defendant pany.After a retirement of 55 minutes the jury awarded special damages and £600 general damages, £590 to the plaintiff, Robert McKee Sullivan, and £100 to. the plaintiff Hilda Emelia Sullivan. Judgment was entered accord-, ingly. with costs .to the plaintiff. Counsel for the defendant was allowed 14 days in which to move arrest of judgment. . . .. . ■ - . . : '•
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 96, 19 October 1940, Page 9
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