Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — AWARDED SIX CENTS DAMAGES [ARTICLE]

AWARDED SIX CENTS DAMAGES

Father, Absent at Interment, Sued Undertaker for Not Waiting for Him. New York. —Six cents damages was awarded James Hewitt of Bayonne in consideration of mental injuries received at the hands of John H. Eldridge an undertaker of Woodhaven, L. I., by a jury in the Queens county court, which tried an action by Hewitt to recover $2,000 from the undertaker. Hewitt alleges that his feelings were injured and he was occasioned much grief and distress .because, through the undertaker’s fault, he was not permitted to witness the interment of his fifteen-year-old daughter, who died in the Jamaica hospital last November. Eldridge was engaged to take the body to a New Jersey cemetery and to superintend the interment. Testimony showed that Hewitt arrived at the cemetery after the hour set for the burial. He declared he was delayed by a tieup on a trolley line, and that Eldridge should have spared his feelings by postponing the ceremony until his arrival.