ACCIDENT INSURANCE PREMIUMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 192, 28 August 1900, Page 2

ACCIDENT INSURANCE PREMIUMS

A TKST CASE I PBB PBKSS ASSOCIATION. 1 Napiei, August 27. i The B.M. Court to-day mi oooupiod , m bearing a test ease as to the right of t employers to deduct theaooidantinsurance premiums paid prior to th« Wag* Protection Act, 1899, from wag* to i •* employee. Mr. Holt, a sawmiller, i made sucb deductioob einoe 1894, ooue I of the man railing any objection, I Roeooe, am engineer in his «m----1 ploy, recently left and than churned a refund of all deductions. Thenlaintiff a case was that the deductions w«« illegal prior to the Act of 1889 under the Truck Aot of 1891. It was admitted he made bo objection or conipWint about it, and it was argued that this was not a tacit consent as defined by " Pullock on Oon> ' tracts," at Rosooe was afraid fa* would s be dismissed if he raised an objeotion, \ Mr. Cottenll, for the defenoe, contended ' that under the deoiaion of the Queen's Bench on the English Truck Aot, identical in terms, deductions could ba • mad* that the Colonial Aot of 1891 I specifically exempted moneys advanosd for insurance of Friendly Societies, ' That Roeooe by not objecting had given { «•*» cowwt. It m admitted reduouons made siooe the passiog of ". the '99 Act were illegal; but it was a contended that the very fact of the '' passing of the Aot to make (ham so, proved that previously they won lsgsl, " The 8.M.. reserved his deoiaion. , ———————__