CLAIM FOR LOSS OF WIFE

Southland Times, Issue 23676, 26 November 1938, Page 8

CLAIM FOR LOSS OF WIFE

VERDICT RETURNED FOR DEFENDANTS

DEATH FROM INJURIES IN ACCIDENT (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 25. Returning a verdict for the defendants, the jury in the Supreme Court in Wellington today rejected a claim by George Albert Kendall Williams, a company manager, of Christchurch, for £4037 5/6 damages for the loss of his wife, Emily Elizabeth Williams, who died in Wellington on August 25 as a consequence of injuries * she suffered when she was knocked down by a motor-car in Brooklyn road, near Washington avenue, a month earlier. The plaintiff brought the action for the benefit of himself and his four children. The defendants were David Norman Costley, clerk, driver of the car, and his father, James Costley, foreman, owner of the car, both of Wellington. The plaintiff alleged the driver had been negligent. In support of the claim it was explained that the plaintiff’s youngest child required attention which his mother had given him and which a person would now have to be employed to give. The defendant denied the driver had been negligent and alleged the accident was the result of negligence by Mrs Williams.