INSURANCE LAW.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20282, 15 December 1927, Page 12

INSURANCE LAW.

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (Peb United Peebs Association.) HAMILTON, December 14. An important reserved judgment on & difficult point of insurance law waa delivered in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr Justice Herdman in & case brought by William Thomas Carr against the Guardian Assurance Company and Cracknell and Crimp, its Hamilton agents. His Honor held that an employee named Johnson, who was injured while working as a carpenter for the plaintiff, waa doing work which constituted part of actual farming operations, and he was an employee of the assured within the description of the workers contained in the schedule to the policy which the defendants claimed was designed to cover only farm labourers. The plaintiff was entitled to be indemnified by the defendant company in respect of moneys he had been ordered by the Court of Arbitration to pay by way of compensation and costs. He would also be entitled to costa of the action as on a claim for £6OO. As to the defendants, Cracknell and Crimp, they were entitled to judgment and costs against the plaintiff as in an action to recover £6OO.