ACCIDENT CASE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10502, 14 December 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENT CASE

COMPENSATION GRANTED.

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BLENHESM, Last Night. I The Supreme Court yesterday and to-day was occupied by the heaniig of a case in which Margaret Corliss sued the Marlborough Timber Com; pany for £2OOO damages for the death of her husband, John Corliss, at Oporiri' Valley, when the Company's engine 'wai& derailed, hi another case in regard to a man ranoedi Anderson, kilted at the same., j'une " and place, it' TVjas agreed that the j evidence .in; one case was applicable I to the other, tlie same veirliot, if to Ibe accepted. ' Qansi'dcr.'ibJe galled with of sitoH® : g' l tiiffiait defendiamts' * , triviif line from which the engine was ae-* -railed wais defective," that deceased, tliough they had knocked oif work for tftie day, were sti® im the employ of the Ootmipamy whJle on. the way from/the bush to the mill, and that the rate of speed of (the engine was excessive.. The defence was that tlhe line wais a suitable one. Deceased were on, the engine ait thiMv osvn *ris&i Oregaui., of Wellingtovi, ap- ■ for the claimants, and Mr T. G.ißaissiell, of €fliri«tch,u,reh, for the defendant. A verdict for £3OO was , returned.