INJURED AT SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 321, 7 June 1911, Page 8

INJURED AT SEA.

A PASSENGER'S CLAIMS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, Florence Louise Dummer claimed from the Shaw, Saville and Alliion Shipping Co., Ltd., .£ISOO damages, and Ernest Edward Dummer £IOOO damages for bodily injuries received by Florence Louise Dummer wnilst proceeding from England to New Zealand by the s.». Tainui. A special jury of twelve was empanelled. Florence Louise Dummer stated she was a third-class passenger from London to New Zealand by the s.s. Tainui. At about 10 o'clock on the morning of November 16, when they were between the Cape of Good Hope and Hobart, she met with an accident and had since been suffering from its effects.

Another witness who came out in the Tainui on the same voyage as Mrs. Dummer, said itirat on the morning of November 16 she went up on deck with Mrs. Dummer and her three children. When crossing along the alleyways to the sheltered side of the deck a wave swept over the deck. Witness was herself nearly washed down a hatchway. She afterwards learnt that Mrs. Dummer had been hurt. It was the custom for third-class passengers to pass these alleyways.

The defence was that the plaintiff Louise Dummer had been carried by defendant company on the voyage upon the terms, amongst others, that the defendant company should in no case bo liable for any loss or injury arising from negligence in the navigation of the steamer, and at the time she was alleged to aave been washed over, servants of the defendant, company were engaged in an-act of navigation, namely, fitting up a cluster of electric lights in the bunker hold of the steamer, which lights were required for working the coal in the hold, and in order to do it it was necessary for the defendant company, by its servants, to temporarily open such holds. The case was not finished when the Court rose.