CAUGHT IN WHEEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 11

CAUGHT IN WHEEL

CLAIM BY TYRE WORKER"

General damages of £850. £-7t 12s special damages were claimed in. , the Supreme Court today by Dominie . Fitzgerald, a tyre vulcanises, who. al- . leged that he had been injured by a : buffing wheel while working for Ntt- • Tread, Ltd., tyre vulcanjsers, of Taranaki Street. The. case was bro.uglit' be* fore the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), and a jury of twelve.. ■ '

Mr. C. Evans-Scott, with him Mr. M. R. Watterson, appeared for the plain- - tiff, and Mr.',W. G.Mellish. for the de- .

fendant,

The statement of claim said that Fitzgerald was employed as a tyre, re- » pair hand and was buffing a tyre .on , an electrically-driven buffing wheel when the tyre became entangled in the teeth of the wheel and dragged him on to the wheel. He suffered a' deep laceration on the left thigh, which. . necessitated ,two operations and kept him in bed for sixty-two weeks, and caused a permanent 'partial' disability. He alleged that' the defendant com- • pany was negligent in.instructing him to hold tyres, round his waist white , buffing. '• The defendant company denied negli- • gence, and claimed that the accident had been solely due to the negligence 6f the plaintiff. The hearing of evidence is proceed*, ins.