DAMAGES AWARDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 21

DAMAGES AWARDED

INJURIES TO WATERSIDER ' STRUCK BY SLING OF TIMBER (Pra United Press Association) <- GREYMOUTH, June 8. Damages totalling £676 11s 8d were awarded to Frederick William Woolhouse, a waterside worker, of Hokitika, by the jury in the Supreme Court to-day, on a claim against the Eclipse Shipping Company for a total of £ll6l 5s 8d for alleged permanent disability suffered through being struck by a sling of timber whilst engaged in loading the motor vessel Hokitika on January 27, 1937, at Hokitika, negligence being alleged. Mr justice Northcroft said that only two out of the eight witnesses were prepared to say there was negligence. i The jury held that the stevedore should have used all the available men to better advantage in controlling the heavy end of the piece of timber by which the plaintiff was struck on the right leg, the tibia being fractured and splintered m several places. „ His Honour adjourned the case till Tuesday next in order to hear argument for the defendant company by Mr J. W. Hannan, who had moved for a nonsuit on the ground of insufficient evidence for the case to go to a jury.