A COMPENSATION CASE

Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 14

A COMPENSATION CASE

(MUESS ASSOCIATION TM.W.XAV.) WELLINGTON, March 13. Judgment was delivered by the Arbitration Court this afternoon in the compensation caso of Antonia Nicholson v. Walter Francis Gundne. in which plaintiff sought to recover £513 in respect of the death of her husband. The parties resided at Martinborough. Mr T. Jordan, of Masterton, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr A. W. Blair for the defendant. It was alleged by plaintiff that her husband, while in defendant's employ ac saddler in Martinborough, in May last, Tan an awl into his hand, as a result of which he contracted bloodpoisoning and died. The defence maintained that the injury had been received by Nicholson while he was engaged in 6tacking wood in his- own yard. Mr Justice Stringer, in delivering the Court's decision, said that the Court thought that plaintiff had made out a case. The evidence in some respects was not nuite satisfactory, but on the whole the Court thought that it must accept th© statements made ,by the plaintiff herself and witnesses. Itcould not believe that the plaintiff's case, ax suggested, was concocted. The Court awarded the plaintiff £468, of which it directed that £110 be paid t« the plaintiff for her own use and benefit, and that the balance be handed to the Public Trustee for investment for- the maintenance of the plaintiff and her children.