AWARD OF DAMAGES
WIDOW'S CLAIM SUCCEEDS (Per United Press Association) TIMARU, May 10. After deliberation for five find a-quar-ter hours a special jury in the Supreme Court to-day gave a majority verdict in favour of an award of £2500 damages to Mary Barton Amy Shaw, of Fairlie, the amount to be divided between herself and her 10 children. The plaintiff claimed £SOOO from the chairman, councillors, and inhabitants of the Mackenzie County as damages arising out of an accident in which her husband, William George Shaw, was killed on November 6, 1934, while he was a passenger in a motor vehicle owned by the defendant.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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105AWARD OF DAMAGES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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