ACCIDENT CLAIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 135, 8 June 1911, Page 9

ACCIDENT CLAIMS.

>:. WIDOW AWARDED £1250. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Jr . WELLIN'GTOX, Wednesday. " The hearing oi Eliza Jane Baillie's _-i_i for —"000 damage- from the Har.'._ttr Board r in respect of the death of _er husband, John Patrick. Baillie, on ' tie wharf in November last, i .*_ coaelu-ed to-day, before Air. Justice. Sim and a special jury of 12. The ■|lai_ti_' "was awarded £I_so. Certain were reserved. *..." -A PASSENGER'S INJURIES. p'-JTJSY AWARD £2000 DAMAGES. I.,J."bV Telegraph.—Tress _sso—at—_.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court io-day before ."to Honor and a special jury of 12, the „:-eoiE. 6. and F. L. Dummer v. the ■ „—"Savill and Albion Shipping Com- . -rawi—nited, was coutinlued. Ihe claim "' ■ffis ; iori£lsoo for bodily injury on the : „pu}"ffthe wife and £1000 on the part i"j—;-£3?Jsv_ba&d for'the loss. of. his wile's l'„rh'ce_ a_a..a.a—stance, lie injuries were 1 fi—iced by Mrs. .Dummer while on the ravage from England to New Zealand iy the steamer Taint— through, falling i-irn'a hold. The jury found the defendants guilty of negligence in not wrning passengers o£ the open hatch, and in not keeping them off that part . of the ship, and assessed damage- due iq the male plaintiff at £750 and to the .'.fen—le plaintiff at £1250. "Mr. Stringer 'ipniied for an order accordingly. His ■ Hanoi said he would reserve his decision mml a law point regarding a ticket nnder the Act ol" Navigation had been . settled.