DAMAGES FOR A WIFE’S DEATH.
SYDNEY, September 29.
Recently a crowd watching the recapture of a chimpanzee scattered wildly when the animal made a forward movement, and a woman in the crowd dropped dead. The jury awarded the decease’s husband £450 damages against the owner of the chimpanzee on the ground that death was the result of negligence and want of cars in keeping the animal.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 65
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