A SHOOTING GALLERY MISADVENTURE.
NELSON, June 20. At the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Edwards gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount .claimed, £2OO, costs, and expenses, in an action brought by Ernest Pridham, clerk, to recover damages from Joseph Mallamo, fisherman, and part proprietor of a shooting gallery, for injuries sustained by being accidentally shot by the defendant owing to negligence in hireling a rifle. The defence was contributing negligence in not stepping behind Mallamo after Pridham bad firea his shot in the shooting contest. Plaintiff was shot in the stomach, and for some weeks lay in imminent danger of death.
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Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 6
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104A SHOOTING GALLERY MISADVENTURE. Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 6
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