INJURED BY DART
COMPENSATION FOR BOY LONDON, December 8. The Court of Appeal decided that an employee in an engineering works whose was injured by a dart while he was in the factory canteen having his lunch was entitled to compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. He is Herbert Knight, 15, of Stanley Road, Hornchurch, to whom Judge Tudor Rees, in the Shoreditch County Court, had awarded 13s 2d a week compensation on the ground that the accident arose "out of and in the course of Knight’s employment.” The employers, Howard Wall, Ltd., engineers, of Hackney Road, challenged the award.
Lord Justice Slesser said that the County Court Judge was right. The canteen was provided by the employers on their premises for the social and recreative activities of their workpeople, who, though they had no duty to go there, were in substance, invited to do so.
‘‘Darts were being played.” added Lord Justice Slesser, ”and a dart might prove an extremely dangerous instrument. Darts are something like an arrow, and it is not to be assumed that everyone who plays darts has the accuracy of William Tell.” Lords Justices Finlay and Luxmoore agreed, and the appeui of the employers was dismissed. Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused. I
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 February 1939, Page 10
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