CLAIM FOR £9OOO
DEATH OF HUSBAND A PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED WE L LIN GTO N, Wednesday Holding that the inference of contributory negligence was irresistible, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, non-suited in the Supreme Court Mrs Kathleen McAuley who claimed £4OOO general damages for the deatli of her husband, Daniel McAuley, £3l 14s special damages and £SOOO for the deprivation of his normal expectation of life. McAuley was killed on August 28 when the motor-cycle he was riding collided with a motor lorry in the Ngahauranga Gorge. Defendant was William Young, fruiterer and greengrocer, of Johnsonville.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20346, 10 November 1937, Page 8
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