APPEAL COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5

APPEAL COURT

JUDGMENTS GIVEN. (l J e? I‘ress Association — Copyright.', WELLINGTON, October 19. Judgment was delivered in the Court of Appeal to-day in the following cases: — Edna May Storey v. the Wellington Hospital Board, heard on September 20: The Court held that plaintiff, by contracting scarlet fever, and heart failure consequent thereon, suffered injury by accident arising out of and in the course of her employment, and that she was entitled to recover.

Mr Justice Herdmau dissented from the other members of the Bench.

Bishop v. New Zealand Law Society, heard on September 27: In a reserved judgment, the Court held that the appellant was entitled to recoved the sum of £IOOO claimed frem the New Zealand Law Society in addition to the sum allowed in the Court below.

Mr Justice Kennedy ivrote a judgment, disagreeing with the other members of the Court. Costs were allowed to appellant on th e higher •scale, as from a distance. Rex v. Garner, heard on October 6. The Court held that certain evidence in the dispute in this case was admissible and that certain: evidence was inadmissible.

Taranaki Electric Power Board v. Borough; of New Plymouth, heard on September 25 :—ln a reserved judgment, the Court, by a unanimous judgment, held that the appeal should be allowed, holding that neither the Boroughs of Inglewood nor Waitara were “adjoining districts,” to the New Plymouth Bow ugh within the meaning of Section 282 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920. The Court allowed costs on the middle scale, as from a disr.nce. On the motion of counsel for respondent, the Court granted conditional leave to s appeal to the Privy Council.