EIGHT MEDICAL MEN GIVE EVIDENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 9

EIGHT MEDICAL MEN GIVE EVIDENCE

EFFECT OF A STRAIN FARM WORKER’S INJURY Claiming that a wrench received while forking heavy green hay on to a stack was the cause of a tumour in his arm, Cyril Remnant, a farm labourer, claimed compensation from Bert Roulston, a Pukekohe farmer. But after tho Arbitration Court had listened to the evidence of eight doctors, a verdict was given for the defendant, the court finding that the weight of medical evidence was that the tumour had antedated the strain which at the most had only accelerated it. . Remnant was forking hay with a partner when the fork his mate was using snapped and threw the weight of the lift on claimant, wrenching his arm and shoulder. Subsequently a tumour had been discovered and Remnant had been disabled from working. Roulston had paid £27 compensation and Remnant claimed a further £2 5s 6d a week since February last. Mr. H. P. Richmond, for the defence, claimed that Remnant had been paid all that was due to him, and had fully recovered from an accident, if such had occurred. Eight doctors gave technical evidence on the tumour. His Honour Mr. Justice Frazer, giving the judgment of the court, said that it was unlikely that the tumour originated in the wrench received, but had probably existed before it.