COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENT.
INTERESTING LEGAL POINT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisbome, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, in the ca.se of Cole v. Richardson, through a claim, for £I3OO damages by a widow ol a wharf laborer, kilted in an accident while working one of defendant s boats, an interesting point was raised on the question of the liability of an emplover to hi* servant when an accident i* caused by the negligence of a fellowservant. Mr L. T. Burnard) submitted for the plaintiff that there was no limit of liability in a claim in case of (■■nth where the defence of common employment was raised, although in the case of an insured worked suing for damages the liability was limited to £SOO. While Mr Lnsk was opening for defendant, His Honor, Mr Justice Cooper, referred to the point, and to the fact that several judges had entered up judgment exceeding £SOO in several caises, although there was, he believed, one decision to the contrary. The point was reserved for argument.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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171COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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