SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 16, 5 September 1914, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED.

(Pisa Patss Association.]

Wellington, September 4.

At the Supreme Court to-day, His Honor Mr Justice Hosking delivered reserved judgment in the insurance claim in which the plaintiff was Frederick Hague, of Utiku, and the defendant the Norwich and Loudon Accident Insurance Company. The plaintiff claimed £263 16s 7d to reimburse him for payments under an award of the Court of Arbitration as an employer of labor. He took out a policy to protect him from claims for accidents to his employees. One of his workmen was killed, and the amount claimed represented the total of the Court’s award of £l5O to the widow. The company disputed the claim, on the ground that the policy held by the plaintiff had lapsed. The widow’s claim itself had a peculiar feature, for it was had a peculiar feature, for it was not known for many years prior to the death of her husband that he was married at all, and an important question was whether a widow not having been dependent on the deceased, had any claim. His Honor, in the course of a lengthy judgment, held that the plaintiff had failed to make out his case, and must therefore be non-suited. As the trouble had been largely contributed to by the action of defendant’s agent, no costs were allowed the defendant company in the action.