TO PRIVY COUNCIL
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES LINESMAN’S INJURIES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In the ease of Vincent v. the Tauxanga Electric Power Board, conditional leave to appeal to 1 tho Privy Council from the decision of the Court of Appeal, given cn July 21, 1933, was granted to-day to Frederick Charles Vincent, of Tauranga, a linesman. Security for appeal was fixed at £350, to he given within one month. Vincent, while in the employ of the hoard in 1930, and working on a transformer at Te Puke, came into contact with a live electric wire, and was seriously burned and severely injured. Subsequently He claimed £3477 damages front the board, basing his action on an alleged implied contract of employment between him and the board, incorporating an obligation to comply witli the electrical supply regulations which, he alleged, lmd been broken by the board and on a breach of absolute statutory duty on the part of the board. In reply to Ibis claim the board pleaded that the action was barred by section 127 of the Electric Power Boards Act, as it was not commenced within six months of the injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 6
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193TO PRIVY COUNCIL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 6
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