LOST MOTHER-IN-LAW.
SON-IN-LAW AWARDED £25. A young Frenchman who lost the body of his mother-in-law owing to a railway company's negligence was awarded .L 25 damages by a Paris tribunal a few weeks ago. The misadventure occurred two years ago, when the young man's mother-in-law died while they were on holiday together, lie sent her body to Paris by rail, and arranged for the mourners to assemble at the terminus. They did so, but the waggon in which the body had been sent could not be found. The waggon had been sent to Le Havre by mistake, marked " Empty—to he disinfected." The error was eventually rectified, and the funeral proceeded. The son-in-law afterward complained that ho had been compelled to buy lunch for tlio mourneit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20898, 13 June 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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