SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8986, 22 November 1907, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

CHARGE AGAINST A JOCKEY. CASE AGAINST ELECTRICLIGHTING COMPANY. \ BY TELEGRAPH - PRKSS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, November 12. At the Supreme Court, to-day, Edward Murtagb, a jockey, was charged with wounding his illegitimate child, two yea s old, andjassaulting Franc :s Leigh, the mother of the child. ' During the evidence it was staled that „si summons had been issued agsC'j&Frances Leigh charging her in connection with the case. The evidence was not finished when the court rose for the day. Frederick Nicolaus, who was yesterday convicted of forgery and uttering, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. Mr Justice Cooper, to-day, delivered judgment in the Supreme Court in the case of Keir v. the Wellington Electric Lighting Company. A man named Corfield, wording for Keir, was electrocuted through i touching the live wire which the load on a Jorry he. was driving at Miramar had brought to the ground. Ktiv- had paid Corficld's dependents £lO5 13s as compensation for his death under the Workers' Compensation Act, and brought an action to be indemnified by. the conrpany. His Honor gave judgment for Keir, being of opinion that the wire, which before the accident was ten or eleven feet above the level of the road, was not sufficiently high for a dangerous wire. CLAIM FO?v DAMAGES. DUNEDIN, November 21. In the Supreme Court, William Harrison, hatter, of Burke's, is suing the London Dental Company for £2,000 damages alleged to have been sustained owing to negligent and unskilful extraction of teeth by the defendant, Moses, by which plaintiff's throat and lungs were permanently injured. * A strong bar is engaged. The case is likely to occupy two days, and is claiming considerlocal interest. * CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. AUCKLAND,. November 21. In the case of the Maori woman, Peti Watene, charged with the murder of her husband, by striking him on the head with a bridle, thejury this afternoon returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and the prisoner received a sentence of six nmonths' imprisonment.