SALESMAN’S DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 1

SALESMAN’S DEATH

MOTHER CLAIMS DAMAGES AS DEPENDANT £lO4 AWARDED Demonstrating a motor-cycle in February last cost Edward E. A. Diehl, aged 17, his life. He had an accident, and died of his injuries. At the Arbitration Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Frazer, Alice Mary Diehl, widow, of Auckland, and mother of deceased (Mr. J. J. Sullivan), claimed reasonable compensation, and medical and funeral expenses amounting to £3l 14s, from Ormond Earl Cordes, motor-cycle dealer (Mr. E. H. Northcroft), in respect of the death of her son. The statement of claim set out’that deceased, who was employed as a salesman and mechanic by defendant, while teaching a customer to ride, was thrown from the sidecar, and received injuries resulting in his death. He was earning £1 5s a week at the time. She was dependent on deceased. The defendant denied that deceased was employed as a mechanic, although he occasionally made repairs of his own free will. Judgment was for plaintiff, based on an estimated worth to the mother of 10s a week. The effect of the judgment is that £lO4 will be paid to the mother of deceased, together with medical and funeral expenses, and costs.