APPEAL DISMISSED
ACCIDENT TO EMPLOYEE COUNCIL MUST PAY ’’’ i (Per Pres 3 Association.) WELLIN'OT ON. this day. In the ease of (he Inglewood Borough Council, versus Seohie. before the Appeal Court, Mr. Justice Skerrett. after staling the case, said that the failure of the employee, in not using a- protective belt was not negligence, as no precaution was needed, for the wires should have been dead, and were stated by the corporation to be dead. An absolute duty was imposed on the corporation not to employ men on wires which had not been cut off unless they supplied an insulated platform, which they did not do.
Tile, appeal was dismissed with costs on tlnY highest scale. Mr. L.' M. Moss appeared for the employee, and Mr. Blair for the Inglewood Borough Council.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 8
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