HEAVY DAMAGES.
LOSS OF RIGHT HAND. £IOOO AWARDED 1 TO BRICKLAYER. (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, July 17. Damages of £looo' were awarded in the Supreme Court- by Mr Justice Ostler this morning to Joseph Charles Hodgson, a bricklayer, who claimed £1227 from the Hume Pipe Company as compensation for the loss of the use of his right hand as a result of an accident at the Blenheim sewerage installation.
Plaintiff was in an excavation guiding a. heavy concrete cylinder to its place for a manhole when the tripod collapsed on top of him.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19360718.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 2
Word Count
93HEAVY DAMAGES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 2
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in