INJURY TO ANKLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 10

INJURY TO ANKLE.

CASE AT ARBITRATION.

CLAIM TOR COMPENSATION

Tn the ea«e of Leslie James Hyland, carpenter (Mr. Sullivan), against Thomae Clements, builder, of Otahtthu (Mr. Leary), a report of which wa« published on Saturday lwit, it was stated that the full amount of compensation was granted by the Arbitration Court. It nppcaivi that the content In that case Iny iH-tuecn two diverse views a«* to the plaintiff's expectation of recovery. The ini'ilicnl witnesses for the plaintiff nU<-jrrd thnt he had incurred an injury that would involve him in a eonsirlnrnViln per'mrl of disablement and thereafter a permanent partial disablement of a third to hnlf of the two of tlip lejr.

Kr>r tho rlpfcncp. it was contended that Hie nlaint'ilT could have gone hack to work noriie time ngn mid that now he wan only suffering from hysteria. The defrncp further contended that the pain from which he win now mifferin? wa* a real pain for which he wa* entitled to compensation, as it was a result of the accident, but being hysterical i n origin it would subside in from three to »ix months after the ciiho wn« settled.

The Court, in giving judgment, wtatefl that it was very glad thiit. it. hud heard Sir Cnrrick Robertson's description of the operation and it wn* convinced that plaintiff was an hysterical mw, Apart, however, from Sir CnrrickN evidonce, tho Court accepted tho evidence of t)i» medical witnemes for the defendant, and gave judgment in accordance with their evidence as tn what the plaintiff wim entitled t<> receive.