APPEAL COURT
. A COMPENSATION CASE. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 8. The Appeal Court to-day gave judgment in the case of David John Miller, wharf laborer, Lyttelton, versus the Union Steam Ship Company. In the lower court the jury returned a verdict for £2,552 10s damages for injuries resulting from a fall into the hold of the steamer Tarawera. The defendants moved to reduce the amount to £SOO, subject to costs, on the ground that the plaintiff was debarred from recovering more because he was a fellow-servant with the chief officer of the ship. The plaintiff had since died, and his widow,. who was substituted, moved lor judgment for the full amount. The Chief Justice upheld the appeal, on the ground that the injury resulted from a defect in a hatch beam, which the ship’s officer (plaintiff’s fellow-employee) should have noticed. Judges Denniston, Chapman, and Hosking concurred in the decision that the plaintiff was only entitled to recover £SOO. The case, was remitted to the Supreme Court at Christhurch for a settlement of costs. > Formal notice of application for an appeal to the Privy Council was given on behalf of plaintiff.
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Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 4
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192APPEAL COURT Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 4
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