COURT RESERVES DECISION
INCIDENT IN HOTEL BAR „ WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. The Court of Appeal reserved its decision to-day on the appeal by the Royal Oak Hotel, Ltd., against a decision of Mr Justice Fair that the company was liable for an injury resulting to a customer whose eye was injured by a glass splinter when a barman threw a piece of broken glass at another customer. Mr T R. Cleary, counsel for the appellants, contended that as the piece of glass was thrown by the barman as an expression of personal resentment, and not in the course of his duty, the company was not liable for the injuries which Charles Pettersson suffered by reason of the barman's act.
For the respondent. Dr. O. C. Mazengarb submitted that a master was responsible for the class of acts a servant was employed to do. In that case, the servant was employed to conduct the bar and keep order, and as the servant negligently did not keep order, the company was liable for his negligence.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 3
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