COURT NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1929, Page 3

COURT NEWS.

COMPENSATION AWARDED AUCKLAND, April I<s. While demonstrating a motor cvclc in February Edward E. 11. Diehl, | aged seventeen, was involved in an accident and succnmbMl to his injuries. In the Arbitration Court, fc-day. ’Aflico Mary Diehl, widow, claimed compensation from Ormond Earl Cordes, motor cycle dealer, in respect to the death of her son, it being al leg H that ueeeased. was employed by defendant as motor salesman and mechanic. and that the accident occurred when he was teaching a customer to ride a motor cycle whil c he rode in the sid.? car. Defendant denied that deceaseu .had been employed as mechanic but admitted he occasionally made renairs and other duties of Jug own free will. , The defence raised the Question of

dependency, Mr Cousley saying that plaintiff had to maintain her son. Justice Fraser said the Court Intimated that th c boy’s profit to his mother was about three shillings a week. It was not likely he . would hav 1, married for four years and the Court must assess the profit he would have been to the mother during that period. Judgment was given on the basis of ten shillings a week on that basis, so that £lO4 will be paid to plain 1 in, togi ther with medical and general expenses, and costs. CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. r< Accused has taken down everyone he met ” said the Probation Officer, of John Herbert Tonking, 28. salesman, who pleaded guilty to ten charges of theft and fabe* pretences in connec lion with the sale of cutlery. He wa r sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Counsel said that the man had been sent out from England by his relarivos to pick up his health.