DEATH FOLLOWS A KICK

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 8

DEATH FOLLOWS A KICK

AN EXTRAORDINARY RULE PING-PONG LOSER’S KOI lEE LT. UNUS CAL COMPENSATION CLAIM.; By Telegraph.—Pros Aesoclation. Wanganui, Last Night. “The circumstances relating to this case are of an unusual and extraordini ary nature,” said Mr. W. J. Treadwell, at the Arbitration Court this afternoon in opening a case in which £lOOO was claimed from the Y.M.C.A. by Donald Dunn Milligan as the result of the death, of his foster father in 1929. Counsel explained that deceased had been secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Wanganui. Ha ' had had a free hand as to what, games should be. played at the institution. The boys had au arrangement by which the winner of a game of ping-pong was to kick the loser on the buttocks, one kick for each losing point. Milligan in September,. 1929, played a game with one boy, saying prior to the . contest that the winner would be entitled to exact the usual penalty. Mill!gan lost by 13 to 10. He told the boy to kick him three times. The boy at first demurred, but finally did so. Unfortunately one kick landed, with the result’ that Milligan received certain injuries as a result of which he died. Milligan was insured with the New Zealand Insurance Company by. the Y.M.C.A, against accident. Argument proceeded as to whether the case was allowable as the stipulated six months had expired before the action was taken. The case was not taken any 1 further for th© present, Mr. Justica Frazer reserving his decision on the point.