DAMAGED CAR.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19820, 24 September 1936, Page 3

DAMAGED CAR.

COVERED BY INSURANCE. Claim For Full Amount. UMPIRE'S AWARD DISPUTED. SUPREME COURT ACTION. tßy Teiesrapn. —Press Association). CHRIST.CHURCH, Sept. 24. When a car - owned by Ambrose Reeves Harris, company director, was damaged, he claimed the full amount of the policy of £3OO from the National Insurance Company of New Zealand. The claim was disputed, and went to arbitration, the umpire awarding Harris £275, the car to be handed to the company. In the Supreme-Court yesterday the company asked that the award be set aside. Mr. Thomas moved for an order setting aside the award, dated August 1, 1936, upon the grounds: —

(a) That the umpire exceeded his authority; (b)-..that the arbitrator, A. F. Stacy, produced evidence on behalf of Harris; (c) that the umpire accepted evidence that was not legally admissible.; '(d), that Stacy displayed bias in favour of .Harris and against the company; (e) that Stacy received . secret information from Han-is; .(f). that Stacy acted as an advocate on behalf of Harris; (g) that the umpire, George Daniel Simpson, failed, to act. judicially, in that he allowed, in evidence documents not. proved and/or purporting to witnesses not subject to crossexamination, .and (h) that Stacy conferred with Harris before entering the arbitration, A clause, in the policy set out that in the event of. a dispute the matter should be referred to the arbitration of two disinterested persons, but that an agent or an advocate could not be called a disinterested person. .