£llOO FOR WIDOW
AWARD FOR COMPENSATION.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH, August 27. A claim for £2OOO, following on the death of Joseph Fox in a collision between a motor cyclist- and. a bicycle, was heard in the Supreme Court today, before Mr Justice Adams and a jury. The claim was made by Fox’s widow, on her own behalf, and on behalf of her daughter, and the defendant was Ronald David Chisholm, rider of the motor cycle in the accident. The evidence of eye-witnesses was that Fox was riding a bicycle up Colombo - Street at about four miles per hour, when Chisholm riding in. the same direction at upwards of thirty miles an hour, overtook him, and struck the rear wheel of the bicycle, causing Fox to fall heavily. The witnesses asserted that there was no light on the motor cycle. The jury awarded the widow £llOO no award being made to the daughter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1931, Page 5
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154£1100 FOR WIDOW Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1931, Page 5
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