WORKER'S CLAIM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 8

WORKER'S CLAIM.

FOR IHJURY TO ARM.

RISK OF HANDLING. GLASS

Evidence was concluded to-day in the action Imfore Mr. Justice Blair and a jury in the Supreme Court in which Charles Alfred Knill, leadliaht maker (Mr. Coates) claimed £114 15/2 epecial and £750 general damages in re&pect to an ai'm injury received when empko'ed by Pbillippa and Impey, Ltd. (Mr. Hore and Mr. Weir), in the work of carrying sheets of plate glass. Plaintiff alleged that the work was work to which he. '-was unaccustomed, that, he bad been sept to do it as a rush jdb, and that he had not been supplied with rubber grips for the purpose. The result of such negligence on the. employers' part, he alleged, was that the accident happened through hie grip oii the glase slipping. • For. the. defendant- compajiy, evidence w«,gh'en : by T. R. Sussex, manager of defendant- company, end J. A. Redwood, manager of the Auckland Glass Coninany, that rubber grips were not required for the size of glaes handled on this.job by plaintiff. Sueeex added that there were grips' at the etore which plaintiff could have taken with him When he. was -sent to do: the job. - ■, The case is proceeding. v