GAS EXPLOSION
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFFS. Per Prees Association. DUNEDIN, August 12. At the Supreme Court today, before Mr Justice Sim and a special jury, a case was heard in which Daniel Lankford Smith, hospital attendant, and his wife. Annie Smith, claimed £239 16s 6d damages from the City Corporation for injuries reoeived by Mrs Smith as tho result of an explosion in Miss Barnett’s shop, in George street, in October, 1925. After a retirement of about half an hour the jury found that the accident was the result of an explosion of bitumen gas formed from the fusing and heating of an electric cable in George street, and that two Corporation employees were negligent in taking a naked light into Miss Barnett's cellar. Mrs Smith was awarded £l6B and Smith £3O.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12524, 13 August 1926, Page 7
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134GAS EXPLOSION New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12524, 13 August 1926, Page 7
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