NO COMPENSATION
EMPLOYEE’S OWN NEGLECT.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, November 8. A compensation claimed failed, in the Arbitration Court, to-day, because plaintiff incurred the injury not out of his employment, but through an added danger by making use of a place he was not, authorised to use, and neglect of the place provided by the company for coats.
Defendant was the Wellington Gas Company, and the plaintiff, Michael Patrick Gorry. Gorry fell into a hole in what the manager said was the ventilating end of a tunnel, and a dangerous place. No one had the right to be there at all. Plaintiff claimed that he went there for his coat, and two sacks to put into the retort house to dry. The Court held that he had no right to leave anything where he did.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1933, Page 12
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