WHARF-WORKER'S DEATH
SUM OF CLAIMED.
QUESTION OF LIABILITY.
[BT TEUMRArn.— mss ASSOCIATION.] Gisboilvf,, Thursday. The sum of £1500 was chimed at the Supreme Court to-day in the case of Cole v. Richard Eon, the plaintiff being the widow of a wharf labourer who was killed while assisting in tho loading of one of the defendant's boats.
A legal point was raised by the counsel for the defendant on the question of the liability of an employer to his servant/ when an accident is caused by the negli-' 1 genco of a fellow-servant.
Mr- L. T. Burnard, for the plaintiff, submitted that there was no limit of liability in a claim in the case of death where the defence of common employment was raised, although in the case of an injured worker suing for damages, the liability was limited to £500.
His Honor Mf. Justice Cooper referred to the fact that several judges had entered up judgment exceeding 500 in several cases, although there was one decision to the contrary. The point was reserved for argument.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15645, 26 June 1914, Page 8
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