Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000049/1979 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 21 December 1979.
1. On the 25th January, this year, whilst travelling with rolls of paper in a lorry, the late coolie husband of the applicant was injured in a traffic accident and thereby died on the same day. The deceased left surviving him a father of 71, a widow, the applicant, of 37, two sons and a daughter aged 13 to 18. The children are all students. The parties seem to be in agreement that total dependency existed in the surviving father and children of the deceased or, at least, in some of them with the