CLAIM SETTLED

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 7

CLAIM SETTLED

Burns Received By Boy By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, December 12. A boy’s dash down a Hokitika street with liis clothes afire after lie had been accidentally sprinkled with burning petrol was recalled in the Supreme Court this morning when Fulton Hogan Ltd., Dunedin, pavement specialists, brought an originating summons asking the Court to approve of 'a compromise of a claim against them by Andrew Tulloch, aged almost 16. <>f Hokitika. Counsel for the company said that. £250 damages for the boy, to be lit'id by Hie Public Trustee till lie was 2.1, and flu for tils parents to pay their expenses, bad been agreed on aS set I lenient . Counsel said that one of the company's employees was trying to start a lorry without success. He asked another for assistance, and as one primed the carburettor from a bottle of petrol the other pressed the starter. A spark ignited the petrol and the man holding the bottle hastily Hung it away. Unfortunately, Tulloch, a message boy, was standing near and his clothes were ignited. He dashed away, but luckily two men caught him quickly and extinguished the Hames. Tulloch suffered burns on the chest and arms. The Court approved of I lie compromise.