CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. In the Supreme Court the Public Trustee, on helaf of Ellen Jajie Littleton, of Waipukuran, llawkes Bay, claimed £2000 damages from Sweetwater, Ltd., gum merchants, for the death of her husband, Jonathan Littleton, who when stirring a cauldron- of gum solution in the company's works at North Auckland on 13th January fell from a plank iuto the boiling liquid, was badly scalded, and died a few days later. It was alleged for plaintiff that the firm had not provided reasonable safeguards. The company deny negligence, but stale that they had never repudiated liability to pay compensation to the full legal extent.
Counsel for the plaintiff said that it was necessary to stir the mixture, and j to do so deceased had to cross the cauldron on a bare plank nine inches -wide. [SMS. E§§ fl2 tefi di§ikSE 1 5||<$S ferice.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1927, Page 10
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149CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1927, Page 10
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