DAMAGES FINDING
JURY'S AWARD UPHELD [Per United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, December 19. The finding of the jury which awarded £125 general damages and €142 Is lid special damages to John Frederick Tweedie Brown, a carpenter, against his employer, Gordon Anderson 'Roberts, a contractor, was upheld by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in a judgment given in the Supreme Court to-day. Brown was working for 'Roberts on the erection of a number of concrete garages at Kilbirnie on August -23, 1937. His work was to plug holes in the concrete floor of the garages into which steel guides were fixed with the aid of molten sulphur. When another employee, Stephen Alexander M'Guire. placed a ladle of sulphur beside him. Brown jumped back and struck a narked car. injuring his knee. _ Brown alleged that M'Guire was negligent in so placing the sulphur without a warning, and, alternatively, that Roberts, or his foreman, was negligent in not giving M'Guire proper instructions. On the jury’s verdict, counsel for Brown moved for judgment, and counsel for Roberts renewed a motion for nonsuit or, alternatively, moved for judgment for Roberts.
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Evening Star, Issue 23145, 20 December 1938, Page 14
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185DAMAGES FINDING Evening Star, Issue 23145, 20 December 1938, Page 14
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