A DANGEROUS WIRE.
WELLINGTON COMPENSATION CASE [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION".] Wellington-, Thursday. Mr. Justice Cooper to-day delivered judgment in the Supreme Court in the case of Keir v. Wellington Electric Lighting Company. A man named Corfield, working for Keir, was electrocuted through touching a live wire, which the load on a lorry he was driving at Miramar had brought to the ground. Keir had paid Corfield's dependents £105 13s, as compensation for his death under the Workers' Compensation Act, and brought an action to be indemnified by the company. His Honor gave judgment for Keir, being of the opinion that the wire, wbicli before the accident was 10ft or lift above the level of the road, was not sufficiently high for a dangerous wire.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13602, 22 November 1907, Page 5
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123A DANGEROUS WIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13602, 22 November 1907, Page 5
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