A POISONED ARM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1913, Page 5

A POISONED ARM.

NOT ALLOWED COMPENSATION.

Judgment was delivered by the Arbitration: Court';to-day in; the.-action in which Percy Ellison claimed from George Browning compensation for: the-loss of the use of an arm due"to blood poisoning while in defendant's'employ.

The plaintiff .was employedvin October last by. defendant -sis' a.;' journeyman plumber at Taumarunui.YZJßie. .deposed that while' lifting some-water,;pip;es" on October 5 .the little finger. hnnd was scratched by a piece of barbed:.wire. Afterwards he was found .to' be' suffering from .'cellulitis in; the le/t; it was necessary to per'ovm" seyeralsttrgical operations ou the liand. —He-rwas. not filially discharged'from the hospital-until Marcli 31." The question to Ke"'de't'ennined was whether the-injury. Avas.'set'r-ip by the scratch plaintiff sustained .while _at w-ork oil October 5. " '•" --'-" : The Court held that in view of the differences, in piaintiff/s. story as told from time to.time, it Was impossible to accept his evidence as The circumstances suggested that" thai trouble in plaintiff's : hand Ymust. have., been caused by an earlier event' thari\"that on October 5. The not'-eslab-lished that his finger was. scratched while he was working for. defendant, and- judgment must be rfor', defendant, vwitb,; costs The plaintiff's counsel Was. Mr;R. A. P"nger. Mr J. K. Reed, KX3. (instructed .by'Mr J.-F. Strnngh;appeared for defendant; " ' '',"" ,"';" -~. *y,*•,',,*." ■