WATERSIDER AWARDED £4371 AS DAMAGES FOR INJURIES IN SHIP
i P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 13. Damages totalling £4371 12s 2d were awarded to William Francis Everest Easton, a waterside worker, in the Supreme Court today. Easton, suing by guardian, the Public Trustee, against Holm and Company, claimed that while working on the steamer Holmlea in July, 1947, he fell down a hatch, as the result, he alleged, of a beam not being properly replaced. He received a fractured skull and broken wrist, shoulder and arm. The Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, in entering judgment, said: “It is a good settlement and a wise one.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19490614.2.31
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22971, 14 June 1949, Page 5
Word Count
103WATERSIDER AWARDED £4371 AS DAMAGES FOR INJURIES IN SHIP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22971, 14 June 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in