WIFE GETS DAMAGES
HUSBAND KILLED BY MOTORCAR Press Association PALMERSTON N„ Today. Last week Charles Robertson, a commercial traveller, was acquitted °n a charge of negligently driving a motor-car so as to cause the death of James Robert Symonds, a bridgekeeper employed by the Public Works Department on the Manawatu Gorge bridge. This morning, in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Blair, a civil action was heard, in which deceased’s Widow, Elsie Evelyn May Symonds, claimed from Robertson and the Diablo Separator Co., trading as the New Zealand Farm Separator Company, £2.000. The court awarded £I,SOO, assesses the widow’s interest at one-third, the remainder to be held in trust for !“ e children, except the eldest, who 18 over 16 years old.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 11
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121WIFE GETS DAMAGES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 11
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