JURY AWARDS £3029

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20952, 3 November 1939, Page 7

JURY AWARDS £3029

CLAIM BY WIDOW EIGHT CHILDREN LEFT (By TPlefrraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday After an hour’s retirement late this afternoon, the jury in the Supreme Court that heard a claim for £5036 damages for the widow and eight children of a man killed in a motor-car collision near Te Horo in March returned with a verdict in plaintiff’s favour, fixing damages at £3029. Responsibility for the accident was placed on the driver of the car in which plaintiff’s husband was travelling, although the driver and owner of the car with which it collided also were named as defendants. The hearing was begun the previous day. Plaintiff was Bemadine Maud Roach, of Otaki, widow of William Hakaraia Roach, carpenter, of Otaki, and the defendants were Daniel George Fraser, of Petone, in whose car Roach was travelling when he received fatal injuries, Ronald Graeme Guy, rental car who had rented the car with which Fraser’s car collided, and Whiu Carroll, farmer, Hastings, driver of Guy’s car. Mrs Roach alleged that either Fraser or Carroll or both had been negligent as drivers and that Guy had not maintained the lights of his car in good order. Fraser denied negligence and said the collision was caused entirely by the negligence of either Guy or Carroll or both. Guy and Carroll said the cause of the collision was the negligence of Fraser and they denied the allegation of negligence against themselves. Judgment was entered against Fraser, with plaintiff’s costs, and judgment was entered for the successful defendants for costs against plaintiff and an order was made for the recovery of those costs by plaintiff from _Fraser. i