ACTION FOR DAMAGES. CHKISTCHURCH, September 7. After a four days' hearing in the Supreme Court, the case in which David John Miller (wharf labourer, Lyttelton) claimed from the Union Steam Ship Company £2500 as general damages and £52 10s as special damages (hospit-al expenses to the date of i=suc of the writ) for injuries resulting from an accident on the steamer Tarawera at Lyttelton on the night of January 17, was concluded this afternoon. The jurv returned a verdict for the full amount claimed,' but judgment was not entered up pending argument on important legal points rai&ea.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 40
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