George appears to have been an only child.
George's children
1931-1991
MILL ROLLER FELL ON CAR
£7,157 Damages for Motorist's Family
At the Assizes in Leeds yesterday Mr. Justice Hallett awarded a total of
£7,157 damages and costs to Mrs. Edith Annie Needham, widow, Martin
Lane, Bawtry, and her two children against James Oldroyd, haulage
contractor, Chancery Lane, Ossett, and Bradley and Craven, Ltd.,
engineers, Westgate Common Foundry, Wakefield.
Mrs. Needham claimed for the death of her husband, George William
Needham, a sales manager, in a road accident in November, 1945, when he
was driving his car along the Wakefield-Doncaster road in the direction
of Wakefield, at Wragby. A motor lorry owned by James Oldroyd and driven
by his brother, Stanley Oldroyd, of Ossett, was travelling in the
opposite direction. The lorry's load consisted of two grinding mill
rollers which had been put on short time previously at the premises of
Messrs. Bradley and Craven. As the vehicles passed, one of the rollers
fell off the lorry and struck the car. Shortly afterwards Mr. Needham
died as a result of the injuries he received. Mr. Justice Hallett said
he was satisfied that the loading of the rollers was plainly dangerous.
The company were under a duty to see that things would not fall off the
lorry, and the haulier was under duty to take reasonable care to see
that the load he was going to carry would not slip off.
Probate was granted to Edith and to Wilfred Marrison. As Marrison was Edith's maiden name I'm assuming Wilfred was related to Edith.
Edith was still living in Martin Lane at the time of her death and does not appear to have remarried.
