WORKMEN’S NEGLIGENCE.
A RE-TRIAL REFUSED. [Pbu Pbkss Association.] Auckland, May 7. In the Supreme Court, His Honor Justice Cooper gave his decision on the motion for a new trial in the case of John Snowdon v. the Waitomo County Council, in which the jury awarded plaintiff £3t) damages for injuries to his left hand, which had been shattered by detonators found near an abandoned forge. The jury held that plaintiff’s injuries were due to carelessness on the part of the Council’s workmen. The plaintiff (a boy of eleven years) was playing with other boys near an abandoned forgo upon un'fenced land about a chain, from the main road. His Honor commented severely on the gross negligence displayed on the part of the County Council workmen in leaving detonators lying loosely about. He dismissed the moiton for a re-trial with costs.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 8 May 1914, Page 5
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