JURY AWARDS DAMAGES
WATERSIDE INJURY |Peb United \Press Association.} GREYMOUTH, June 3. Damages totalling £676 llg 8d were awarded to Frederick William Woolhouse, a waterside worker, of Hokitika, by the jury in the Supreme Court today, on a claim against the Eclipse Shipping Company for a total of £1,161os 8d for alleged permanent disability suffered through being struck by a sling of timber whilst engaged in loading the motor vessel Hokitika on January 27, 1937, at Hokitika, negligence being alleged. Mr Justice Northcroft said that only two out of the eight witnesses were prepared to say there was negligence. The jury held that the stevedore should have used all the 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 being fractured and splintered in several places. • His Honour adjourned the case till Tuesday next in order to hear argument for the defendant company by Mr ,f. W. Hannan, who had moved for a nonsuit on the ground of insufficient evidence for the case to go to a- jury.
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Evening Star, Issue 22975, 4 June 1938, Page 1
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186JURY AWARDS DAMAGES Evening Star, Issue 22975, 4 June 1938, Page 1
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