DEATH OF GIRL; FATHER’S CLAIM
[Per Press Association. — Copyright .l PALMERSTON N„ This Day.
The monetary compensation to which a father was entitled through the death of his 16-year daughter as the result of a highway accident was a question which a jury was asked to decide in the Supreme Court yesterday, when Andrew Frederick Campbell claimed £1456 from William Richard Paul, who, while on a motorcycle, ran down and killed Irene Merle Campbell. Campbell, a dairy farmer, said his daughter had helped him, and to replace her since her death had cost him £3 a week. Campbell had expected to have his daughter’s services for at least 14 years, but he admitted under cross-examination that she might have been married before she was 30.
Counsel for the defence stated that •deceased was an attractive girl, who would have made an ideal farmer’s wife. Many girls in New Zealand were married at the age of 19 years. The jury awarded £260.
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Northern Advocate, 24 October 1936, Page 5
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