A COMPENSATION CASE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 72, 7 March 1911, Page 7

A COMPENSATION CASE.

1 DOES MARRIAGE REMOVE LIABILITY? | Wellington, March 6. “Does marriage end incapacity?” This poser will have to be considered and ruled upon by the Arbitration Court in connection with an award granting compensation to Adeline Bernansen, formerly an employee of Ross and Sons, Foxton. Mr. P. J. O’Regan, representing Mrs. Barnansen, applied to-day to the Arbitration Court to commute a weekly payment into a lump sum. When the plaintiff was a single woman she met with an accident while in the defendant’s employ, losing her left arm. She was granted 5/per week on account of her incapacity. and this payment continued until her marriage, when the defendants discontinued it. They were willing to contribute and the court was asked to fix the amount. He maintained that marriage had not lessened defendant’s liability. The President (Mr. Justice Sim): I suppose she has a husband who does keep her? Mr. Levi (representing the defendant) said he was not in a position to go on with the case and knew nothing of the facts. Mr. Justice Sim : Supposing that instead of getting married she ha J succeeded to a legacy, making he.* independent, you don’t suppose she would not have been entitled to the allowance? Getting married does not remove her incapacity, or give her a new arm. Mr. Levi said he would not argue the point, and the case, will have to come up again during the present sittings.