DAMAGED MOTOR CAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 226, 23 September 1936, Page 8

DAMAGED MOTOR CAR.

UMPIRE'S AWARD DISPUTED. SUPREME COURT ACTION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. When a car owned by Ambrose Reeves Harris, company director, was damaged, he claimed the full amount of the policy of £300 from the National Insurance Company of New Zealand. The claim was disputed and went to arbitration, the umpire awarding Harris £275, the car to be liarided to the company. In the Supreme Court to-day the company asked that the award be set aside. Mr. Thomas moved for an order setting aside the award, dated August 1, 1930, upon the grounds (a) that the umpire exceeded his authority; (b) that the arbitrator, A. -F. Stacy, produced evidence on behalf of Harris; (c) that the umpire accepted evidence that was not legally admissible; (d) that Stacy displayed bias in favour of Harris and against the company; (e) that Stacy received secret information from Harris;' (f) that Stacy acted as an advocate on behalf of Harris; (g) that the umpire, George Daniel Simpson, failed to act judicially in that he allowed in evidence documents not proved and/or purporting to witnesses not subject to cross-examination, and'(li) that Stacy conferred with Harris before entering on the arbitration. A clause in the policy set out that in the event of a dispute the matter should bo referred to the arbitration of two disinterested persons, but that an agent or an advocate could not be called a disinterested person. (Proceeding.)