SUPREME COURT
AUCKLAND. INJURED BY CREAM SEPARATOR. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 10. At toe Supreme Court the jury awarded £2o7' for injuries received by the plaintiff through the bursting of milk separator in the case Charles Avery Ashwin v. J. B. MacEwan and Co. The plaintiff purchased from the defendants a separator which burst while in operation, portions of the howl flying out and Inflicting permanent injuries to his right arm. Plaintiff attributed the accident to the failure of a screw joint in the bowl of the separator which, lie contended, was too weak. Defendant declared that plaintiff must have put the bowl together wrongly, causing it to wobble when it revolved, and eventually to fly out of the machine. The jury found that the separator was not reasonably sure for the purpose for which it was supplied, and that there was no negligence on the part of the defendant or iiis servant. Defendant’s counsel intimated that be would move for a nonsuit. and argument on legal points will probably be heard to-morrow.
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Southland Times, Issue 17654, 11 February 1916, Page 6
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