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Doctor's Widow Granted 35000 After Melbourne Wharf Death
Mrs Elizabeth Soothill receives 23500 for herself with 11500 placed by the Victorian Supreme Court for her three children until they turn 21. The award, the state’s largest family damages for loss of breadwinner, follows her husband Edward Soothill’s death when hit by a Commonwealth car near Melbourne on September 29. He was 37, set to become senior surgical registrar at Prince Henry's Hospital and could have earned substantially in later private practice. The family, from Norwich, had sought damages after alleging the husband left them nearly penniless. The Commonwealth admitted liability.
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Sydney
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