EMPLOYER’S ESTATE HELD LIABLE FOR COMPENSATION AWARD
P.A. INVERCARGILL, October 19. “I have no doubt, at all, after hearing the evidence, that protruding wires, when men from the Fewer Supply visited the works, were not so visible that the men were negligent in failing to observe them. I think the whole case fails with that conclusion as to the facts”, said Mr Justice Christie, in giving judgment in the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which the Public Trustee, as executor of the will of Albert Cundall, claimed £2436 13s 6d against the Crown. Judgment was given for the Crown with costs. The case was the sequel to a fatal accident at Cundall's by-products works, at Waikiwi, on January 29, 1947, when an employee, Allan Stanley Ogilvy, touched a live wire and was electrocuted. At a previous sitting of the Supreme Court, Ogilvy’s widow was awarded damages totalling £2436 13s 6d against Cundall’s estate, the executor or which (the Public Trustee) claimed that sum from the Crown.
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Grey River Argus, 20 October 1948, Page 7
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