CLAIM FOR INJURIES
By Telegraph—Press Association. _ Westport, July 5. The ease John Watterson v. West-port-Stockton Coal Co. was concluded | this morning-, after two days' sitting. Tiie hearing: was before Warden Hutchison and a jury of five assessors, under the Mining Act. Plaintiff was brakesman on a truck train in defendant company's mine, and was injured in Septomber last by tho derailing of several trucks. Ho alleged that the traffic manager was negligent in that he. permitted a train to enter the mine knowing that it would meet another coal-laden truck at a point where trains could not pass. Plaintiff's train in backing out of the mine got derailed, causing him serious injuries, in consequence whereof he ' claimed .£3OO. The jury awarded the full amount claimed.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3129, 6 July 1917, Page 3
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125CLAIM FOR INJURIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3129, 6 July 1917, Page 3
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