INSECT BITE EFFECTS
Damages For Losing Legs
(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The United States Supreme Court today decided that a former railway worker should receive 625,000 dollars’ damages because both his legs had to be amputated after he was bitten by a flying insect. The man, Mr James Gallick, claimed that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad should have filled in the stagnant pool of water by which he was working when bitten in 1954, United Press International reported. The insect bite began to develop like a boil and ulcers appeared over •Mr Gallick’s body. Doctors could find no way to heal the disease and both his legs had to be amputated to save his life.
Mr Galliek, who is confined to a wheelchair, appealed to the Supreme Court after a lower court had refused his compensation on the grounds that he failed to prove that the insect bite was due to negligence on the part of his employers in allowing the stagnant pool to exist
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 7
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