A MOTHER'S CLAIM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 8

A MOTHER'S CLAIM

SEQUEL TO FATALITY COMPENSATION AWARDED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. While demonstrating a motor-cycle in February last, Edward E. H. Diehl, 17, was" involved in an accident, and succumbed to injuries. In the Arbitration Court to-day Alice Mary Diehl, a widow, claimed compensation from Ormond Earl Cordes, motor-cycle dealer, in respect of the death of her son, it being alleged that the deceased was employed by the defendant as a motor salesman and mechanic. The accident occurred when he was teaching a customer to ride a motor-cycle while ho rode in a sitle car. The defendant denied that the deceased hail been employed as a mechanic, but admitted that he occasionally made repairs and performed other duties of his own free will. The defence also raised the question of dependency, counsel saying that the plaintiff had to maintain her son. Mr. J.nstiee Frazer said the courtestimated that the boy's profit to his mother was about 3s per week. It was not likely that he would have married for four years, and the court must assess the profit he would have been to the mother during that period. Judgment was given on the basis of 10s a week, srt that £lO4 will be paid to the. plaintiff, together with medical and funeral expenses, and eosls.