WIDOW CLAIMS DAMAGES.
JURY AWARDS £1250. LEGAL POINT RESERVED. [nv telegtAi'ir.'—fjiess association".] IXVERCAEGILL, 'Wednesday. As a sequel to tlie fatal accident which occurred 011 September 13 of last year, when a motor-car driven by. a youth, Roy Pankin Wallace, collided with a baker's cart driven by Mr. Andrew Mcßeath, who died next day as a result of injuries, a civil action was commenced in 1.110 Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Kennedy and a jury. Plaintiff was deceased's, widow, Margaret Mcßeath, who sought 'to recover from Kov Pankin Wallace, the driver, and Fleming and Company, • Limited, owners of the car. the sum of £2500 damages in rospect of (he death of her husband. The jury returned a verdict for £1250 damages, £750 of that amount to go to the widow and £SOO to bo divided equally among the children. Mr. J. S. Sinclair, for Fleming and Company, moved for a non-suit, while Mr. \V. Tait, for (ho plaintiff, moved that judgment be entered in tonus of the jury's finding. ilis Honor reserved his decision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20564, 15 May 1930, Page 12
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