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Sir George White's Claim At Antrim Assizes

Volume 91: debated on Monday 25 March 1901

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MR. JOHN CAMPBELL

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that at the County Antrim Assizes, on Thursday, 21st March, Sir George White claimed £25 in respect of damage done to the windows of his house at Knocknacarry, near Cushendun, for which damage the county court judge had previously awarded him £4 10s., that Mr. Justice Barton considered it was not a case of malicious injury, and disallowed the claim to compensation; and whether His Majesty's Government will see that Sir George White suffers no pecuniary loss in this matter.

MR. ATKINSON

The Government have no power to award compensation to Sir George White under the circumstances mentioned.

MR. JOHN CAMPBELL

Is not this the house from which a priest was evicted, and has Sir George White turned house-grabber?