DEATH OF AN ENGINE DRIVER.
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 28. At tho Supreme Court to-day the jury awarded £9OO damages to tlie plaintiff in the case Alice Young v. Christchurch City Council. The plaintiff claimed £2OOO as compensation for tlio death of her husband, an engine-driver, which occurred in the railway yards on Juno lltli, and which it was alleged was caused by the wilful negligence of the City Council employees in placing some nightsoil trucks foul of the running road at the yard, and so causing the fatal accident. Judgment was entered up subject to certain law points ■reserved."
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2050, 29 November 1907, Page 3
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