SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8108, 12 May 1906, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

PES PBESS ASSOCIATION. Gisuohni, May 11. A verdict of not guilty was brought in the second charge (as well as in the first) against William Oswald Skeet for alleged breach of the Bankruptcy Act. The Crown Prosecutor intimated that he did not intend to proceed with the other two charges, which were practically one. Judgment was Riven by Mr Justice Chapman in the case, Glover v. Mills, the claimant being awarded £l7 (on the basis of half wages) and costs. He had, whilst employed as a draper, lost the sight of one eye through an acoident when doing a little carpentering work in the shop. His Honor said claimint had been tacitly allowed to do such work, and the benefit of it had been accepted, addhg, "We think that what he did was intended for the furtherance of his employer's interest, and that he regarded it as a necessary thing to do. If, as he said, tha splint caught in his waistcoat and so interfered with his work, it was to her interest that ho should remove the measure. In the country employment was not so narrowly specialised that a man was not, expected] to assist his employer occasionally in matters somewhat outside his daily duties."