SUIT FOR DAMAGES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1928, Page 5

SUIT FOR DAMAGES

Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copvri gh t).

(Received this day at 10.30. a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 19.

Hefnre the King’s Bench, an Australian Victoria Cross winner, Leonard Iveysor, sued the film producer, J. B. Samuclson, for damages and injuries received for the filming re-enactment of the Gallipoli bombing episode, lor which Koysor was decorated. Plaintiff’s case was that in consideration of £75 weekly he went to the studio at the Isle ot .AA ight. Smoke bombs and gun-powder were used in the production of the trench scene. Me alleges a carelessly thrown electrical discharge of gun-powder was faulty, and as a result the bomb and also the gun-powder exploded in his face, and fractured his jaw and inflicted a hundred incised wounds in bis left forearm, and fifty wounds in his knees. He was confined to his bed lor five and a half weeks. Mis jaw, despite an operation, is permanently disfigured. Cross-examined Iveysor denied lie laid not told Samuclson about the sandbag portion of the episode. •• Samuclson told me a lot ol things 1 did to get the Victoria Cross, but 1 had not done them at all.” daughter.) The doctor ordered him to Aloiiaco, which was very quiet. Bevins (for the defence): ‘I suppose you went across the border to .Monte Carlo.”

Kevsor: “ Oh, yes.” Justice Harridge: “I do not think von need pursue that. Kevsor admitted lie did not know the cardboard jam-nn bombs were empty, with a small piece of 'fuse attached Bevfus: “ I suggest not one ot tlu bombs exploded.” . Kevsor: “There was n certain amount of smoke and something exploded when I threw them back. Defendant gave evidence that he included the sandbag after Kevsor had told him of it. H was not the ease that the signal for firing the was the dropping of a sandbag. The scheme was as safe as could lie in a war film. The case was adjourned.