FOURTH DAY
FACTORY ACCIDENT CASE
Final addresses by counsel and the summing-up of the Chief Justice (SJv Michael Myers) to the jury of twelve occupied all this morning in the Supreme Court case in which 'Douglas
Arthur William Brewer, a letterpress machinist apprentice, claimed from the Empire Printing and Box Manufacturing Company, Ltd., £1266 19s ,6d damages. Today was the fourth day of the hearing. -
The plaintiff lost the thumb and one finger of his left hand as the* result of an accident with a platen-cutting machine, which he was working in the company's factory last August. Each side contended that the negligence of the other caused the mishap.
Mr. O. C. Mazengarb and Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. W. Perry and Mr. R. E. Pope for the defendant company.
The jury retired to consider its verdict at 12.40 p.m.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 5
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145FOURTH DAY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 5
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