‘PROHIBITED ADVENTURE’
Driver’s Glass Of Beer London, April 9. Britain’s Law Lords met in the House of Lords yesterday aiicl solemnly decided that drinking a glass of beer might constitute a “prohibited adventure.” They dismissed an appeal by Mrs Alice Knowles against the Southern Railway for compensation for her husband’s death. Knowles, a Southern Railway van driver, left his van for a minute to get a glass of beer. Climbing back to the driving seat, he was thrown under the wheels and killed when the horses started. The Law Loids decided that since the railway had a regulation forbidding employees to drink on duty, “from the moment Knowles left the van, he broke off employment and 'the accident happened before he renewed it.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 253, 10 June 1937, Page 3
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123‘PROHIBITED ADVENTURE’ Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 253, 10 June 1937, Page 3
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