SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143670, 14 December 1911, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

BLENHEIM SESSIONS. Per Press Association BLENHEIM, Dec. 13. The Supreme Court was occupied yesterday and to-day in hearing a case in which Margaret Corliss sued the Marlborough Timber Company for £2OOO damages tor the death of her husband. John Corliss, at Oponan Valley, when the company’s engine was derailed. . Another case, in regard to Anderson, killed at the same time and place, was also heard. It was agreed that the evidence in one case was applicable to the other, and the same verdict, if any, was to be accepted. Considerable evidence ivas called with the object of showing that defendants’ tramline, from which the engine Was derailed, was defective, and that deceased,- though they had knocked off work for the day, were still in the employ of the company while on the way from the bush to the mill, and that the rate of speed of the engine was excessive. The defence was that the line was a suitable one, and that deceased were on the engine at their own risk. Mr. O’Regan, of Wellington appeared for the claimants, and Mr. T 6. Russell, of Christchurch, for the defendant. A verdict for £3OO wa» returned.