ACTION TO RECOVER FROM THE N.Z. ACCIDENT COMPANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 270, 18 October 1883, Page 3

ACTION TO RECOVER FROM THE N.Z. ACCIDENT COMPANY.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) 1 " } I fUNITKD PftBSS ASSOCIATIoir.) " Wblmnqton, October 17.,. w ; At the Supreme Court/an action was! brought by the wiiow of the l&te George Dixon, who was drbwne'3 off th J e s'.s. Triaroa ..some, months, ago, to recover from the New Zealand: Accident; Insurance Company the sum ot £500 ; upon a policy issued to : deceased about two yeara;a?q. Counsel for the defence . admitted alt the plaintiflTs allegations 'with, the exception of that clause which 'declared that deceased was iv his same imiWd'when ! he met his death m Jiine last. Evidence was taken to the effectthat Mr Dixon, who was a, well-known (manufacturer of aerated wttar m Weilin^fpo, had-: visited Auckland m jude las, and ©n returning home via the East Coast by the steamer Taiaroa, was lost overbaard off Cape Turnagain. .Der erased wi^edeposed that hewas usually: a bod sailoj. . Her husband wftsnot^ an'interaperate rain. She had hot known him gutu intoxicated; Dr; Cowell^i ef ,^apie<f, deposed that he was called off to the' Taiaroa m Jnde last, when rhe was told pis Eer^b;s were reqoired m a -case of delirium / tremenf. DeceavedV symptoms ' were such as would result .from alcoholic poisoning. He asked Mr Dixon what bad bropg-ht him to this state, and he said he-.' had been cairry ing' s on- avb : tJ. ■ - John —Warren, steward of the Tuiaroa gave evidence as to what, .look place up .- to when Mr ■Dizdn went orerboard. Further evidence 1 will be taken tc-morrow.