COMPENSATION CLAIM.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1934, Page 3

COMPENSATION CLAIM.

ACTION BY WIDOW FAILS. HUSBAND’S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. The Arbitration Court to-day heard a compensation ease, when Sarah Ann Chambers, of Methven, widow, claimed £lOOO and various costs from Ernest Albert Bland, a farmer, of Methven. The plaintiff is the widow of George Chambers, a farmer, who died on August 22, 1933, as the result of an accident while clearing stumps for the defendant. Blood poisoning set in after the accident and caused death. It was decided on medical evidence that it was agreed that Chambers died from general blood poisoning. One medical witness said that if the condition leading to blood poisoning had been present before Chambers’s fall on the log the strain would intensify it. Another said that the strain would allow an abscess to form and a secondary abscess, causing blood poisoning, would arise from that. Other doctors declared that Chambers had suffered from a low grade of infection for some time and that boils, from which Chambers had suffered had released the germs into the blood stream, causing abscesses in the' kidneys. All that the accident did was to produce an ajea of low resistance. His Honour said that two theories had been put forward by the medical witnesses. Each one was Seasonable. Plaintiff had not proved that his theory was the correct one and had not made his case. Judgment was given for defendant. Costs were not applied for. -(P.A.)