£6,890 DAMAGES.
AWARDED TO WATERSIDERS. Wellington, Last Night. Mr P. J. O’Regan has received cabled advice from Melbourne that Justice Casseu’s reserved judgment has been delivered in favour of plaintiffs in the action by five Auckland waterside workers against the Waischer Proprietory, Limited. ■A jury recently awarded the plaintiffs £6,850 damages, and this was subject to a non-suit point by the defendants, that they owed no' duty to observe care towards anyone, except the firm from whom they received the order, namely Rosenhain and Company. Mr Justice Cassen’s reserved decision gave judgment for the full amount with scale costs, witness expenses and disbursements, including the cost of taking the evidence of twenty-live witnesses at Auckland. Mr Justice Cassen held that the defendants owed the duty of taking care in the filling and securing of the cylinders to everyone personally coming lawfully into proximity thereto.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 2
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144£6,890 DAMAGES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 2
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