COMPENSATION CASE.
SAP3FORD v. WOODROOFE. At the Palmerston S.M. Court on Tuesday, the judgment summons ease William Sapsford v. George Thomas Woodroofe, claim on a judgment of the Court of Arbitration for £Bl 1-I.s, was heard. Mr P. J. O’Regan, of Wellington, appeared for the judgment creditor, and the defendant, who was not represented by counsel, conducted his own case. This was a case under the Workers’ Compensation Act, the plaintiff having been awarded judgment in May last by the Court of Arbitration in respect of injury by accident while in (ho course of plaintiff’s employment as a butcher’s assistant at Poxton, in consequence whereof he had lost two joints of his left index and middle fingers. Woodroofe had no policy indemnity, and he averred his inability to pay a lump sum, but was prepared to pay at the rate of 10s per week. In the course of cross-examina-tion, defendant admitted (he ownership of landed property at Poxton and Palmerston North,'*also that his wife owned property in Poxton. Defendant was ordered to pay the full amount of the judgment within two months, in default to undergo two mont hs’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2004, 17 July 1919, Page 3
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190COMPENSATION CASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2004, 17 July 1919, Page 3
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