APPEAL COURT.
- AN INTERESTING CASE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Court of Appeal this morning heard argument in the ease of Robin versus the Union Steamship Company. The case raised an interesting and important: point, whether in an action against an employer by a wife or a mother dependent on the deceased servant who met his death through negligence of a follow servant the damages are unlimited, or whether damages are limited to £SOO. The question turns upon the construction of Section 62 ol the Workers Compensation Act, 1908, as amended bv Section 13 of the Amending Act of mi. The claim in the action is for £IOOO by plaintiff, as daughter of Hie late John Robin, who died as tiny result of an accident on the steamer AV an aka on 2nd April, 1917. Dependant issued a summons to amend the claim bv reducing it , £SOO. Mr. Justice Hoskins dismissed the summons, and defendant now seeks to have that decision reviewed by the court. The decision was reserved.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1917, Page 7
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