WORKERS’ COMPENSATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17702, 31 January 1918, Page 4

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION.

AN INTERESTING POINT-

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 30. The Court of Appeal has delivered its judgement in the case of Robin v. the Union Steam Ship Company, raising the question whether, in an action against an employer, by the wifo or other dependent o"f a deceased servant, through negligence of .a fellow-servant, the damages are unlimited, or whether the damages are limited to £SOO. The question turned on the construction of section 62 of tho Workers’ Compensation Act, 1908, as amended by section 13 of the Act of 1911. The claim was for £IOOO by plaintiff, as daughter of the lato John Robins' who died as the result of an accident on the steampr Wanaka, on April 2, 1917. Defendant issued a summons to amend the claim by reducing it to £SOO. In the lower Court Mr Justice Hoskins dismissed the summous, and the defendant nmv asked the Appeal Court to review Mr Justice Hosking’s decision. Tho Chief Justice .and Mr Justice Cooper uphold the contention that the claim must be limited to £SOO, under the Workers’ Compensation Act. Mr Justice Denniston and Mr Justice Chapman held that the claim was not so limited. Mr Justice Hosking’s decision therefore stands. Leave to appeal was granted.