BOY'S LOSS OF SIGHT.
A NON-BUIT FAILS. *) Telegraph—Press Association. Cfcristclrarch, Last Night. In eoßfleetion with the recent ease in which Hugh McLean Urquhart, a youth of fifteen, claimed £IOOO for the loss of u eye caused by an explosion which occurred during an experiment in chemistry in hie classroom, and in which the jury awarded £BOO, counsel for the defendant, the Ashburton High School Board, applied for a non-suit on the grounds that there was no evidence of negligence and that the relation of master and servant did not exist between the board anfi teachers to-day. Mr. Justice Herdman dismissed the motion for a non-suit, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for the sum •warded by the jury, with costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1920, Page 5
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120BOY'S LOSS OF SIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1920, Page 5
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