WATERSIDER'S DEATH.
Wife AWARDED £1000 damages.
llfjjtt telegraph.—press association.]
p: Giphobne, Sunday. $%,• tie ease of Hepsibah Colo v. the |wf&4rdson Company, a claim of £1500 tb&agfcf for loss of plaintiff's husband, ; Eupert Cole, killed while unloading rail|P|*E iron from the steamer Hippie, the |jury returned a verdict for £1000. The fjiajr kid that a negligent method had igbtffli adopted in discharging the rails, pSt the lighting was insufficient, that such, gSSgligeiiCe was the fault of the.company was the real direct cause of the accifj&fit, and that tlx© deceased was not guilty 1$ toy negligence.
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New Zealand Herald, 29 June 1914, Page 7
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94WATERSIDER'S DEATH. New Zealand Herald, 29 June 1914, Page 7
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