AN EXIST CLAIM

Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 41

AN EXIST CLAIM

GIRL IN J FRED AT SCHOOL. WELLINGTON, June 27. At the Supreme Court a claim was heard for £1550 damages against the Wellington Education Board. Two years ago a girl, now 17 years old, and a pupil, at the Technical College, was receiving instruction in shorthand, when the form on which she was seated collapsed, and as a result of the fall she sustained grievous injury to the spine, necessitating lengthy medical treatment, the provision of special appliances for treatment, and change of air. Further, it is claimed that the father of plaintiff suffered the loss of the domestic services of his daughter. Juno 28. An unusual claim for damages has been made against the Education Board and Technical School Board by Dennis Delaney, a gas litter, and Winifred Delaney, his daughter, whose age is seventeen years. It was alleged that the girl sustained serious injuries through one of the elassvcom forms collapsing. This occurred in February. 1919, and the girl was still suffering from the injuries. The sum of £-1552 was claimed. The defence denb.l liability or icgligenc-e. The jury held that the accident was caused hi' negligence. The defendant was awarded £2OO damages each to father and daughter, subject to the father's rights within the 'law. which were rev. wed by Sir John -almond. His Honor said the qs. e-trio -if I lie fe'Ler’s expenditure wa~ too indefinite. He submit fed to the jury that if the damages wore awarded no estimate should be taken into neeoimt of the d.-ima res to the father. ’! he girl was the <>nh- one. If" con-ideied that j|." rath": had no right, to .-ue fo, any Anorc stronger has!'" 'but in an indc, ua wav pare:-.:- have been mi abler! to bring aetious of this sort. He estimated the claim for da.rnages on the value of the girl's dona-stir services which he had list thread: lb" girl’s injuries. The faf had a.-sumed. as master - <it sen ant s had d I'm- rent o ; that he Fas. as well ; ; ,ai i - hi ■ fatlu r of the child, also its 1 in.,- n-r. I- lilirr- for cent cries past have i-'-a.-i! I, d tin ir children in the light of | servants.