SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

A CLAIM FOR DAMAGES

A olaim for damages was hoard in tho Supremo Court yesterday morning, before His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman and a, common jury of four. Joseph Ignatius Hynes, machinist, of Wellington, plaintiff, and the Wellington Patent Slip Company, Ltd., shipwrights and ship-repairers, of Wellington, defendants. Mr. W. Perry appeared for Hynes, while Mr. T. Neave appoared for the defendant company.

Tho claim was for £260, damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Hynes in the course of his employment with tho defendant company, for 'whom he was working a circular saw. Tho allegation was that, on account of tho negligence of another of the defendant company's employees, tho plaintiff (Hynes) was struck on the hand by a flying piece of timber, and in consequence or this lost the use of the second finger of his right hand.

Tho defence was a denial of liability, the defendant company saying that Hynes was entitled to, and had accepted, compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act.

In the afternoon the jury paid a visit to the scene of the accident, and, after hearing the remainder of the evidence, they found for the plaintiff (Hynes), who, they considered, was entitled to the 6um of £100 as damages. Judgment was entored accordingly, subject to an allowance for compensation already paid.

DAMAGE TO CARGO

SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. . Auokland, February 23. At the Policf Court, Mr. Cutten, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff in tho case of Williams and Green versus the American and Australian Shipping Line. He awarded £63 9s. damagos for damage to plate-glass on the voyage from Now York to Auckland. The Magistrate said the evidence satisfied him that the

damage was duo oither to kegs of nails being amongst the cases of glass or to the shifting of cargo, both, in his opinion, being due to negligence.

LAPSE OF A LAWYER

PLEADS GUILTY TO FORGERY.

Auckland, February 23. In the Supremo Court, Charles ward Haden, a barrister, chargcd with forgery, and obtaining £1 10s. by using a cncque known to be forged, admitted the charge. He stated he had been drinking, and had reimbursed the man whose money he used.-- He asked for leniency, stating he had thrown away all prospects of advancement in his profession for thirty shillings. Sentence was deferred.

Thomas Grogan, on his second trial for attomptod rape at Whangaroi, was! found guilty and sentenced to foui years'-imprisonment. <

GUILTY OF ASSAULT.

□unedin, February 23. At the Supreme Court, Robort Rich, ards was sentenced to twclvo' months' imprisonment for assault at Tapanui, causing bodily harm.