INSURANCE LAW.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 December 1927, Page 9

INSURANCE LAW.

• DIFFICULT POINT DECIDED

(BY TELEGRA PR -PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HAAIILTON, Dec. 14. An important reserved judgment in a difficult point of insurance law was delivered at the Supreme Court to-day by Air. Justice Herdman in a case brought by William Thomas Carr against the Guardian Assurance Company and Cracknell and Crimp, its Hamilton agents. His Honour held that an employee named Johnson, who was injured while working as a carpenter for the plaintiff, was doing work which constituted part of actual farming operations, and accordingly he was an employee of the assured within the description of workers contained in the schedule to the policy, which the defendants claimed was only designed to cover farm labourers. The plaintiff was entitled to be indemnified by the defendant company in respect of moneys he had been ordered by the Court of Arbitration to pay by way of compensation and costs. He would also be- entitled to costs of the action as on a claim for £SOO. As to defendants Cracknell and Crimp, they were entitled to judgments and costs against the plaintiff as in an action to recover £6OO.