ARBITRATION COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT.

SUIT FOE COMPENSATION.

CPbess Association.] WANGANUI, March 24. At a sitting of the Arbitration 'Court Mrs Carleton sued F. Hague for oompensatiou for the death of her

husband, a waggon driver, who was .;• killed'a£ ITtakuiit-.^Jaauary;rlast.. \ The-aefenoel Was'that there 'Wja^<<'nb~ proof that claimant was^the wife of aeceased. In mrvi caW she was not dependent upon him. - " The evidence showed tha-t' Ca-rleton left his wife in Canterbury 17 years ago and came to Rangitikei. He' sent her money for a short while and then disapprared from her knowledge, 'though she tried to trace him. Lengthy evidence was given by thos6 who kuew Carleton in Canterbury and Rangitikei, at the close of . which the Court declared that it was satisfic-d a prima facie case of identity / had been made out.

Judgment was reserved