SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3100, 2 June 1917, Page 12

SUPREME COURT

WATERSIDES CLAIM VERDICT FOR £100 DAMAGES .In tlio Supremo Court; yiwtorday i;ho Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, and a jury of twelve, resumed the hearing of Gcorgo CamwolL's claim for -£'501 damaged from tho Blackball Coal Co., Ltd. Mr. 1 , . J. O'Regan appeared for plaintill', niul Mr. K. Kirkcciklio for tho doi'cndiuit company. Pkintill', who was a waterside- worker, ivas, about October C, l!)l(i; insisting in unloading coal, from n. steamship owned by tno defendant company. JJo received injuries from a fall which, he alleged was duo to tho negligence cither of tho company or of a fellow-servant. Tlio company denied that plaintiff's injuries wero serioue, and plejded that tho accident was inevitable. Tho jury found that plaintiff was entitled to .6-100 damages. Mr. Kirlccaldie moved that tho entering of judgment bo deferred, and Mr. O'licßan formally moved for judgment. Tho matter will 6tand over till His Honour returns from Napier, which ho will visit about a week hence. DIVORCE CASE. JURY AWARD ,£IOOO DAIfAGES. His Honour Jtr. Justico Hoeking .and a jury of twelve heard a potitiou in divorce by George Sydney Kerr (Qnartcr-m,aster-'lrmourer-Sergeant, of Trentharn) against Harriet Mary Kerr and Raymond Victor Bytjiell (timber merchant, of Blenheim). 'The petitioner alleged that his wife had committed adultery with tho co-respondent, and he claimed from tlie latter £500 damages, and such other relief as the Court deemed proper. Mr. H. P. O'Leary appeared for the petitioner, Mr. P. "W. Jackson for tho respondent, and Mr. T, 3a, Wilford for the co-respondent. The adultery was not denied, but the respondent alleged that it was due to the petitioner's cruelty. The only point in dispiite was that of damages. The jury returned a verdict on the issues in favour of the petitioner, and found that the latter was entitles to recover .£IOOO damages from the co-respond-ent. Mr. O'Leary moved for a decree nisi, and Mr. 'YVilford for a now trial. Tho motions will be argued before His Honour in Chambers at a later date.