A WIDOW’S CLAIM.
£IBOO AWARDED.
(Per United Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., November 5. Last week Charles Robertson, commepc:al traveller, was acquitted on a charge of negligently driving a motor car bo as to cause the death of James Robert Symonds. bridgekeeper, employed’by the Public Works Department on the Manawatu Gorge bridge. This morning in the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Blair, a civil action was heard, in which ceased’s widow, Elsie Evelyn May Symonds. claimed from Robertson and the Diabolo Separator Company, trading as the New Zealand Farm Separator Company, £2OOO. His Honor awarded £IBOO, assessing the widow’s interest at onethird, the remainder to be held in trust for the children, except the eldest, who is over 16 years of age.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 7
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121A WIDOW’S CLAIM. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 7
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