AN EMPLOYERS LIABILITY

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1914, Page 5

AN EMPLOYERS LIABILITY

AN INTERESTING CASE. {Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, Tune 25.' At the Supreme Court to-day in the case of l Cole v.-' Richardson through a claim for ;£i>soo damages 'by a widow J2rf a wharf labourer killed in an 'accident wh'lc working one of defendant's boats, an interesting point was raised on. the question of the liability of an employer to his servant when an aca'aent is caused by the negligence of- a fellow servant. .Mr. L. T Burnard submitted for the phmtiff, that theie was nQ limi,. of liability in a claim m the casf of death, where the defence of common employment was raised, -llthough in the rose >of an inmrert- worker «uini r for 'damages the liability was TmiEed to A 00. While *Mr. T-usk wi»s oneni^^r for defendants H^ Hon^r. Ju c t'-~e Qonrc-c re. f«Vr*»d to th«» point. ?"d to **■«» f^c% th°t iurlrrfsi <h.wl mtfM-"d u l^ n c(sr< t^ r re m ■•<! b^ beh'\cd, On" /-|p-~i<i'irin tn ih^ rpntv>r\T^ e point V^^ re'seived for m^nt.