THE NEURASTHENIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1847, 5 September 1913, Page 7

THE NEURASTHENIA.

INJURED WORKER NON-SUITED. (By Telegraph—Press ' Association.) Auckland, September 4. Judgment was Riven, by Mr. Justico Sim at the Arbitration Court in a caso in which Charles Nichols claimed £150 from Win stone, Ltd., alleging total incapacity to work as tho result of an accident whilo .unloading coal. . His Honour remarked that three medical exports * who l examined plaintiff on behalf of defendant wero of opinion . that lie was not suffering from disease of any kind, and was malingering. The original injury was very slight, and it seemed to tho Court highly improbable that such injury would produce inflammation of the covering of tlie spinal cord. Tho original injury, his Honour contended, was ono_ which might have produced' neurasthenia in a suitable subject. .In a -case, howevor, wliero nourasthenia is alleged have been caused by such a slight injury as here —and tliero was a suggestion of wont of bona fides in the claim—tho onus lay on the claimant of making out very clearly the existence of tbe disease. Iliat onus, in the opinion of tho Court, had not been discharged in tbe present case. Judgment was therefore given for defendant with costs.