CHILD'S FEET BURNED
DAMAGES ACAINST BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Nov. 16.
A boarding-house keeper’s liability for injury that might befall a lodger was dealt with by Mr. Justice Alpers to-day in deciding the case in which William Charles Irwin and his infant son claimed from Thoirisa Hannah and his wife £157 special and £750 general damages on the ground that, while boarding at the defendant’s place at Otaki in January, 1925, Jack Irwin, now aged four, walked ns an infant into some hot ashes and was so severely burned that he lost all the toes of both feet.
Mr. Justice Alpers held that the child had a right to be in the yard, and gave judgment for £5OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1926, Page 2
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