DAMAGES AWARDED
WATERSIDER'S ACTION
(By Telegraph—Presi Association.)
GREYMOUTH, June 3,
Damages totalling £676 lis 8d were awarded Frederick William Woolhouse, "watersider, Hokitika, by a jury in the Supreme Court on a claim against the Eclipse Shipping Company for a total of £1161 5s Bd for alleged permanent disability resulting from his being by a sling of timber while engaged in loading the motor-vessel Hokitika on January 27 at Hokitika. Negligence was alleged.
Mr. Justice Northcroft said that only two out of eight witnesses were prepared to say there was negligence. The jury held that the stevedore should have used all available men to better advantage in controlling the heavy end of the piece of timber by which the plaintiff was struck on the right leg, the tibia bone being splintered and fractured in several places.
The Judge adjourned the case till Tuesday in order to hear argument by Mr. J. W. Hannan, for the defendant, who had moved for a nonsuit on the ground that there was insufficient evidence for the case to go to the jury.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1938, Page 15
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