EMPLOYERS LIABILITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 30 August 1901, Page 2

EMPLOYERS LIABILITY.

DAMAGES FOR AN ACCIDENT. PER P8833 4.BSOCIATION. Wellington, August 29. At the Supreme Court Henry Wray sought to recover £250 dtmtgts from the Union Steamship Company for an accident met with while in the employ of tbe defendant Cooipinv. The st itement of claim set forth that the plaintiff, while employed as paititer on the Takipun* at the patent slip on sth June, fell through a bunker hole and sustained severe and permanent injuries Ito his left hip and right leg. The hoi was newly made while plaintiff was working on the ste mer, and he was no' informed of it by anyone in the employ of the Company superintending tbe work. Insufficient lighting ('he accident occurred ad n'ght) and o'h"i grounds of negligence were alleged. The defence s-t up was that defendant was well aware of the position of the i bunker bole, that all precisions Wire takon by defendant", and if pldntiff had used ordiniry care tbe Accident would not have occurred The jury returned a verdict for £l3O, aod judgment was entered accordingly with coats. Stay of execution was granted for fourteen days. .