ARBITRATION COURT.
UNUSUAL COMPENSATION CASE. CHRISTCIIURCH, February 6." The Arbitration Court gave judgment today in a compensation case brought by Edith May Yeabsloy against the Kaikoura County Council. Plaintiff's husband was employed as a labourer by the council. Last May, when under instructions to convey letters to the foreman, got a lift' in a motor car. Ho was standing on the running board, when he was bumped off and. received fatal injuries. The council hold that the accident arose from peril voluntarily incuired independently of deceased's employment. The court held that when tho accident happened the deceased was under instructions to convey tho letters quickly, and ho was reasonably entitled to avail himself of any method of conveyance not obviously-- Judgment was given for tho amount claimed (£468), and costa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 18
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130ARBITRATION COURT. Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 18
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