DEATH OF A BOY.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 8

DEATH OF A BOY.

COMPENSATION CLAIM. MADE BY THE MOTHER. £lO4 AWARDED BY COURT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. While demonstrating a motor-cycle in February Edward E. H. Diehl, aged 17, was involved in an accident ana succumbed to his Injuries. In the Arbitration Court to-day Alice Mary Diehl, widow, claimed compensation from Ormond Earl Cordes, motor-cycle dealer, in respect of the death of her son, it being alleged that deceased was employed by defendant as a motor salesman and mechanic, and that the accident occurred when he was teaching a customer 1o ride a motor cycle while he rode in the sidecar. Defendant denied that deceased had been employed as a mechanic, but admitted that he occasionally made repairs and performed other duties of his own free will. The defence raised the question of dependency, counsel saying that plaintiff had to maintain her son. Mr Justice Fraser said the Court estimated that the boy’s profit to his mother was about 3s per week. It was nbt likely that he would have married for four years, and the Court must assess the profit he would have been to his mother during that period Judgment was given on the basis of 10s per week on that basis, so that £lO4 will be paid to plaintiff, together with medical and funeral expellees and costs.