SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25304, 14 August 1943, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

CLAIM AGAINST COMPANY SUCCEEDS Judgment for the plaintiffs was given by Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme • Court yesterday in the case, heard on Wednesday and Thursday, in which Lewis Frederick Brooker, William McLeod, William E. Austin, Bernard Magee, and Norman Glass claimed from the Oamaru Mai' Company, Ltd., the sum of £124 5s 10d, representing additional sUms prescribed by the award for operator-mechanics. After traversing the facts of the case, his Honor said that for almost half the time each plaintiff did work, which brought him within the special definition of operator-mechanic, and such work was not trivial nor to be regarded merely as incidental to the work of an operator. In these circumstances he found that the defendant company was liable to each plaintiff and there would therefore be * . judgment for each of them for the amount claimed, which had been agreed upon between the two parties. At the hearing, Mr I. B. Stevenson appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr C.J. L. White for the company. Husband's Petition Mr Justice Kennedy heard a petition by Richard Morris Paterson, a member of the R.N.Z.A.F., who was represented by Mr A. G. Neill, for restitution of conjugal rights. His Honor made an order for restitution within 14 days against the defendant, Shirley Edith Mary Paterson.