WOMAN’S DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 May 1937, Page 6

WOMAN’S DEATH

FAMILY AWARDED DAMAGES

[PER press association.]

AUCKLAND, May 27.

The hearing of a claim for £2OOO damages under the Deaths by Accident Compensations Act was concluded in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Callan and a jury. The action was brought by Arthur Burrows, of Matakohe, farmer, as administrator of the estate of his wife, Isabella Burrows, and the defendant was Esmond Henry Savage, of Tahuna, sawmiller. The action rose out of a collision between a truck and a motor-car at the corner of East Tamaki road and the Great South road at Papatoetoe, on April 27, 1936. Mrs. Burrows died two days later. The car in which she was a passenger was driven by Oscar Clausen, her husband’s brother-in-law, and the truck was owned by the defendant and driven by his employee, Rangi Weke. Plaintiff alleged that the accident was due to' the negligent driving of "Weke. The defence denied any negligence. The jury returned with a verdict for the plaintiff for £750, and funeral expenses of £22. The damages were apportioned by the jury as follows: £4OO for plaintiff, £lOO for his elder daughter, and £250 to the younger daughter.