Supreme Court.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 132, 3 December 1897, Page 3

Supreme Court.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Dunedin, December 2. At tho Supreme Court Judge Williams delivered judgment in the case of Wilsou v. Ramsay, a claim for damages to a seaman on the steamer Napier, owing to alleged neglect. The Judge said the plaintiff must fail because he had not showed that he was physically incapable of directing Notice must be given as reijuired by the Act of 1882. He regretted having to come to that conclusion, because he thought the evidence established the negligence alleged. He i however, Lad to administer the law as he found it, apart from benevolent considerations. In Johnston's case of fraudulent bankruptcy, the Jury after being locked , up all night failed to agree, and were discharged, and a new trial was ordered at the next criminal sittings. In the case of Coker v. Qneen, the Judge held that a railway servant who loses office through his own default, is disentitled to compensation. la this case until appellant's negligent act, he had suffered no loss of employment requiring compensation, his loss of office was the direct consequence of hiaown negligence, and it would requiro plain language in the Act to entitle a man to compensation for loss caused by bis own negligence.