£3OO DAMAGES AWARDED.
AFTER JUDGE SAYS CLAIM IS '
RIDICULOUS
(Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, last nigld
At tlio Supreme: Court, in a claim for £1641! damages for injuries received whilst employed at. the To Ivawa quarries, near Te Awamutu, heard before Mr. Justice Herdman and a jury, plaintiff was James Floyd, laborer, Te Ivuiti, and the defendants Thomas G. Martin, farmer, and Willia-m .Dtwiedin Ross McCord ir.. engitiooi, •hptmprly caun-htg on business in partnership at Te Ivawa tinder Hie style of the Te Ivawa Quarry Co.
11l summing up, His Honor described the claim as a ridiculous one. He thought- some of the jury might regard it ns preposterous. Plaintiff, to ITis Honor’s mind, suffered only from a bruise and after sleeping on his claim for six months, now came forward and brought an action for this large amount of monev.
After a retirement of three and ahalf hours, the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff, awarding him £3OO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 8
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160£300 DAMAGES AWARDED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 8
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