IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
(.United Press Association.) WKLLINOTON", This Day. An important judgment involving the setting aside of a jury's verdict was given by the Chief Justice to-day in the case Schaef (protographer) v. Tingey and Coy. (ipainter), wherein £250 damages was claimed for injuries sustained through, a trestle being blown off the Evening Post 'balcony and falling on plaintiff. The workmen were at lunch when the accident happened and expert evidence piroved tha tthe way the tres 1 - t]o was left was in the usual course of business. This being so, and there being no affirmations or evidence of negligence. Sir R. Stout-held that the case should not have gone to the jury and entered a verdict for defendant, leave to move in this direction having been granted at the original hearing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 July 1916, Page 2
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131IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Nelson Evening Mail, 26 July 1916, Page 2
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