COMPENSATION AWARDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 9

COMPENSATION AWARDED.

INJURY TO MAN'S LEG.

CONFLICTING MEDICAL OPINION.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

WELLINGTON, Monday

Several questions difficult to determine were involved in a claim for compensation made in the Arbitration Court to-day by Albert James Hamilton, a driver, against the New Zealand Express Company, Limited. The statement of claim set out that as a result of an accident while ha was in charge of a horse-drawn lorry belonging to the defendant company, Hamilton's left leg was injured. Complications developed over the site of an old compound facture and tlie lower part of the leg was affected. Plaintiff was receiving compensation oi: £3 4s a week from the company. The defence contended that plaintiff had recovered from the effects of the injury and was now in no way incapacitated as a result of the accident. Medical opinions regarding the state of plaintiff's leg and his fitness for work formed the greater part of the evidence, and there was a decided conflict in the views of the doctors.

Mr. Justice Fra'zer, referring to tire differences of opinion, said it appeared lo him that the varicose conditions of the leg had been aggravated by .tlics first accident and further aggravated by the second accident. The real conflict :n the medical opinions seemed to be over the question of the class of work plaintiff was fitted to do.

Judgment was given for plaintiff for full compensation to date, and for a further eight weeks, and compensation at; the rate of 15 per cent, in view oil-the possibility of the leg causing trouble at intervals.