EMPLOYER NOT LIABLE

Southland Times, Issue 21264, 10 December 1930, Page 7

EMPLOYER NOT LIABLE

INJURY TO EMPLOYEE.

DECISION OF COURT. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 9. The degree of an employer’s liability for an accident to an employee when he is on his way home after a mission for his employer was laid down by Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court to-day. Francis Joseph Morshead, a nurseryman, claimed compensation from Duncan and Davies Limited, of New Plymouth, for an injury received in an accident which occurred in June last. Morshead had been sent to Moturoa by his firm and the route for the return to New Plymouth was, for some portion of the journey, tho same, whether he returned to the company’s premises or to his own home and when the accident occurred he had passed the place where the two routes separated. His Honour said: When he reached the junction he had reached the nearest point to the nursery he intended to take and from that time he was no longer in the course of his employment but was in exactly the. same position as any other worker proceeding on his homeward way. Judgement was given for the defendant company, leave being reserved to it to apply for costs.