£4000 CLAIM FAILS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23206, 28 November 1938, Page 14

£4OOO CLAIM FAILS

SEQUEL TO WOMAN'S DEATH KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR-CAR [BY TKLKGRAI'H —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Saturday Returning a verdict for the defendants, a jury in the Supreme Court at Wellington rejected a claim by George Albert Kendall Williams, company manager, of Christchurch, for £4037 damages for the loss of his wife, Emily Elizabeth Williams, who died in Wellington on August 25 as a consequence of injuries she received when knocked down by a motor-ear in Brooklyn Road, a month earlier. The plaintiff brought the action for tho benefit of himself and his four children. Tho defendants wore David Norman Costley, clerk, driver of the car, and his father, James Costley, foreman, owner of the car, both of Wellington. Plaintiff alleged that tho driver had been negligent. In support of the claim it was explained that the plaintiff's youngest child required attention, which his mother had given him and whjch a person would now have to be employed to give, Defendant denied that the driver had been negligent and alleged that the accident was the reSuit of negligence by Mrs. Williams.