ARBITRATION COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1913, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

! A DISABLED LEG. i While employed by Messrs Smith and' • Eidd, of Te JKopuru, some time- ago, a i man named Stanley Blaeklaws had-the i misfortune to hit his leg on a buggy . shaft, and an ulcerous wound resulted, • disabling the leg; As tbe outcome, he; i claimed compensation throughthe Court. > Mr Singer'appeared for plaintiff, and Dr. H. D. Bamford for defendant. The plaintiff's . evidence was to the effect that the night of May 20th' was ' very misty, and while he was looking for a customer's vehicle he bumped his leg on the shin. Fifteen years previously he had been kicked by an inmate in an : asylum, where he was an attendant, and 18 -months prior to May 'last had been injured in the same jJacejthrough a piece ' of flooring rising up while he was pulling | a cart over it and 'striking hint on-the • leg. These injuries had left no perma--1 nent ill-effect, however, -but the collision • with tlie buggy shaft had caused an ulcer, ' and he had been incapacitated on and 1 off ever 6ince. Dr. Crump and Dr. Marsack, whb had ' attended plaintiff, gave evidence that' 1 the leg at. present prevented plaintiff J from working. : ,Dr! .Bamford explained that certain compensation had been paid, and defend.. . 'ants-had"been undertheimpfeasioa.that , plaintiff %aa agreed thatf all liability up ; to July 22nd had beeii settled. Defend-' r ants-contended that his leg was- well by . that date, and that tbey could not be . held responsible for any recrudescence of . j the complaint after that date. . The Court decided that the present t incapacity was due to the accident, and , that defendants were liable., The ques- : tion of compensation was left over -until , Friday, to enable defendants to have the medical evidence verified.