COMPENSATION COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 262, 11 December 1909, Page 2

COMPENSATION COURT

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, JYiday. The Arbitration Court heard the case Buckland v. Murray, Roberts and Co. to-day. Plaintiff alleged that while working as a laborer in the grain store he was assisting to lift a bale of cornsacks on to a dray when he was subjected to a heavy strain which produced aneurism of the aorta. The medical evidence was reviewed, and the Court held that the existence of aneurism had not been shown. It showed, however, that ■plaintiff suffered from neurasthenia, and the question was whether this came from the accident. The Court thought this must have been caused by the accident which happened in April, l'laintitl was awarded a lump sum of £SO, with costs £.lO 10s and disbursements. In the ease Simmons v. Lambert Bros., pottery works proprietors, plaintilt in July last was tipping clay into the rollers, and while endeavoring to take out a stone with a hook his hand got into the rollers and the right hand was injured. The defence was serious and wilful misconduct in not stopping the machinery when removing the stones. The Court held that misconduct had not been iproved, and plaintiff therefore was entitled to compensation. Judgment was that plaintiff must submit to curative treatment recommended by two medical witnesses, and in the meantime he will be allowed compensation at the rate of £1 2s 6d per week till a further order of the Court.