SHIPPING COMPANY SUED
WATERSIDER CLAIMS £1,500 ACCIDENT ON STEAMER Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. A watersider, Joseph O’Brien, is pursuing a claim in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice fc?mith against tho Dunedin-Wanganui Shipping Company arising from an accident on the steamer Holmdale. Plaintiff is alleging permanent injury, in regard to which medipal evidence was given assessing tho injury at two-thirds of plaintiff’s earning capacity. Plaintiff was struck by cargo falling out of a sling, and negligence is alleged on the part of defendant in allowing the cargo to be loaded on the principle of block stowing, and in failing to provide fore and aft space of at least lift between fore and aft ends of the hatch coamings and the nearest cross-beam. It is also contended that the omission of the hatchman to stop the hoist until the sling had ceased spinning contributed to the accident. The claim is for £1,500. The defence is that the breaking un of the sling was a pure accident, and that defendant himself was negligent in failing to step clear after making up the sling, also in preparing the sling and in other ways. (Proceeding.)
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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