DEATH FOLLOWS KICK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 7

DEATH FOLLOWS KICK

SECRETARY OF Y.M.C.A. CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, August 25 “The circumstances relating to this case are of an unusual and extraordinary nature,” said Mr W. J- Treadwell, when opening a case at the Arbitration Court this afternoon in winch £IOOO was claimed from the Y.M.C.A. by Donald Dunn Milligan as a result of the death of his foster-father in 1929. . . . , Counsel explained that deceased had been secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Wanganui. He had had a free hand as to what games should be played at the institution. The boys had an arrangement by which the winner of a game of ping-pong was to kick the loser on the buttocks, one kick for each losing point. Deceased Milligan, m September, 1929, played a game with one boy, say in" prior to the contest that tne winner would be entitled to exact tha usual penalty. Milligan lost by 1,5 ooints to 10. He told the boy to kick him three times. The boy at first demurred, but finally did so. Unfortunately one' kick landed, with the result that ‘Milligan received certain nijunes as the result of which he died. Milligan was insured! with the. New Zealand Insurance Company by the Association against accident. , „ Argument proceeded as to whethe the case was allowable, as the stipulated six months had expired betoie action was taken. . The case was not taken any tiu ‘ ther for the present, Mr Justice Frazer reserving his decision on this point.