CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS
SEQUEL TO LIFT FATALITY The claim for £2OOO damages brought by Ivy Hollingshead Willis against David B. Howden and others in respect of the death of her bushand, John Willis, who, with Phillip Allen, was killed by a lift in the defendants' building descending on him ended suddenly 'in Wellington on Tuesday in'a verdict for the defendants, with costs. After hearing Mr. Gray, K.C., state that the evidence pointed out that the men were with their heads over the liftwell talking to another man and ought to have seen the lift (which 1 Mas certified to he in good order.) descending, and evidence on those lines being given, the special jury declared that they had already made up their minds and desired to hear nothing further. They did the usual thing of voting their fees to the plaintiff.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 11
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142CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 11
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