SUPREME COURT
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS
(By Telegraph.—Pres# Association,
AUCKLAND, This Day.
After a hearing extending over two full days the jury in the Supreme Court rejected a claim for £IOOO general damages and £l6 5s 6d special damages made by Arthur Frederick Rose, 18, through his father, C. W. A- Rose, labourer, Newmarket. The claim arose out of the explosion of a detonator said to have been found by tho plaintiff’s brother on a heap of spoil at Newmarket, where defend ants had been executing tunnelling work involving the use of explosives. Through exploding the detonator with a pin the plaintiff lost all the fingers of one hand and part of one finger of the other hand. . The Judge’s summing up occupied an hour, and after twelve minutes’ deliberation the jury returned a verdict for the defendants, who as a mark of sympathy for plaintiff’s father, did not ask for costs.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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