Claim on Estate

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13

Claim on Estate

AUCKLAND DROWNING FATALITY RECALLED FISHERMAN’S DEATH (Special to THE SUXJ CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday The circumstances of a peculiar cas* were unfolded in the Arbitration Court this morn ins - before Mr. Justice Fraser. The action arose out of an incident on November 22. 1927. when the fish ins boat Dolly was blown out to sea from Auckland and lost, taking to their death's Thomas Hook and John Henry Masleu Hook was in the employ of Maslen tn the fishing expedition, receiving a wage of £5 a week. The first action was taken by Louis Daniel Cossill, of Auckland, farmer, in his capacity as guardian of the children of the late Thomas Ilook. Plaintiff claimed that Thomas Hook met his death while working in the service of Joseph Henry Maslen. and asked that the Court should grant such compensation as the trial should show proper. The defendant cited was Charles Fredrick Maslen. «• Auckland, executor of the will of the latJoseph Henry Maslen. Defendant denied that Thomas Howt. was employed by Maslen to go to sea ii. the Dolly, or that he was in Mash n s service. An unexpected turn come when a further claim was made by Mrs. Sarah Ann Hook, of Christchurch, widow or the deceased, but not the mother of th« children named in the claim. The case proper will be heard in thCourt at Auckland, and Mrs. Hook's evi dence was taken this morning.