JUDGE AND JURY.
A.-VERDICT AND A NON-SUIT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Greymouth, March 10. At the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Kdwards gave an interesting decision in tlio case of Frederick Jurisch v.' Butler Bros., a claim for .£SOO compensation for the loss of plaintiff's finger in a machine, due, it was alleged, to tho negligenco of the defendants. The caso lasted three days, and tlio jury returned a verdict for .£253 for the plaintiff. But counsel for defendants applied for a lion-suit on the grounds (1) That there was not suilicientevidence for the case to go to a jury; (2) on the finding of tlio jury judgment could not bo entered for the plaintiff; and (3) plaintiff had applied to the defendants in the first place, under the Workers' Compensation Act. His Honour upheld tlio appeal, and non-suited the plaintiff.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 4
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139JUDGE AND JURY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 4
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