CAUSE OF FATALITY
CASES FALL FROM LORRY WIDOW ALLEGES NEGLIGENCE iPer United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. A claim for damages is being heard in the Supreme Court with respect to the death of Robert Kennedy Ritchie, who was killed on the pipe bridge over the Hutt River at Petone as the result of cases containing motor parts falling from a lorry on which they were being conveyed from the wharf to the Fort! assembly plant. The widow, on her behalf and on behalf of her 12-year-old son, is seeking £l4 IDs special damages for funeral expenses and £3OOO general damages from the firm of Barton, Ginger, and Co., carrying and forwarding agents. . The negligence alleged is thatneither of the two cases, one of which was resting on the top of the other, was secured to the lorry. Negligence is denied, the defendant firm attributing the accident to an exceptional gust of wind. . The hearing was adjourned till tomorrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 10
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