Read the full judgment text of CACC 000487/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted of negligently allowing to fall welding splits from a height of about 20 feet at the side of a house on to a public street when he was welding a bracket for holding port plants. He was convicted on his plea of guilty. The evidence of the police officer who was in charge of the case was to the effect that on the 29th April as he was walking along the street he saw sparks falling from where the appellant was working. He said these sparks were causing people to leave