DEATH OF HUSBAND.
CLAIM BY WIDOW FAILS. PUBLIC WORKS CAMP ACCIDENT. [DY TEkEGHAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHT7RCH, Tuesday. The Arbitration Court to-day heard a claim for compensation made by Elizabeth Coutts, a widow, of Christchurcli, arising out of an accident, in which hor husband, John Coutts, a Public Works employee, received fatal injuries .as the result of a landslip near Westport on April 3. The landslip swept over a camp owned by tho department. The department denied liability. The Court held that there had been nothing to prevent Coutts from living in his own camp, and when a man had a right, but not a duty, to live in an employer's hut, the employer was not liable.
Judgment was given for tho department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 14
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