WORKER INJURED ON WAY HOME.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 5

WORKER INJURED ON WAY HOME.

0 QUESTION OF EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December £). The degree of an employer's liability for accident to an employee when he is on his way home after a mission for his employer was laid down by Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court to-day. Francis Joseph Morshead, a nurseryman, claimed compensation from Duncan and Davies, Ltd., of New Plymouth, for an injury received in an accident which occurred in June last. Morshead had been sent to Moturoa by his firm, and the route for his return journey to New Plymouth was for some portion of the journey the same whether he returned to the company's premises or to his own home. When "the accident occurred, he had passed the place where the two routes separated. His Honour said: "When he reached the junction, he had reached the nearest point to the nursery, which he intended to take, and from that time he was no longer in the course of his employment, but was in exactly the same position as a worker proceeding on his homeward way." Judgment was given for the defendant. company, leave being reserved to it to apply for costs.