COMPENSATION CLAIM
SEQUEL TO LIFT FATALITY, (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 20. The hearing was commenced to-day in the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice and a special Jury of 12, of a claim for £2OOO by Ivy Hollingshead Willis against David B. Howden and others in respect of her husband, John Willis, who with Philip Allen, was killed by a lift falling on him on October 13, 1926. She alleged negligence on the part of the defendants in not providing a proper apparatus for braking the lift. Defendants denied negligence and alternatively pleaded contributory negligence. The case was adjourned till to-morrow.
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Southland Times, Issue 20209, 21 June 1927, Page 7
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103COMPENSATION CLAIM Southland Times, Issue 20209, 21 June 1927, Page 7
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