COMPENSATION CASE.
HUSBAND KILLED BY TRAIN. (Per Press Association.) PALMER STON NORTH, April 9. The Arbitration Court to-day heard a claim for £IOOO made by Lilian Evaline Geance, of Feilding; against Richard Burns and John N'eilson, contractors and builders, of Feilding. It was claimed by the plaintiff that, while proceeding on a niotor-cycle to defendants' workshop, in accordance with their orders, her husband was struck by a train and fatally injured, and that the accident arose- in the course of employment. Defendants contended that the accident did not happen in the course of employment. A non-suit point raised, by the defence was dismissed by the Bench, who held that deceased was employed immediately he went from his house, and that travelling to the factory was part of his work.
Judgment was given for plaintiff for the full amount and costs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 153, 10 April 1930, Page 6
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