APPEAL COURT.
1 QUESTION OE COMPENSATION. By Telegraph,— Fress Association Wellington, Sept. 2S. The Court of Appeal this morning heard argument in 1 tho case of .Robin v. thft Union Steamship Company. The case raises an interesting and important point as to whether in an action against an employer by tile wife or other dependent of a deceased servant who met his death through the negligence of a fellow-servant, damages are unlimited, or whether damages are limited to £SOO.
The question turns upon the construction of section 62 of the Workers' Compensation Act, .1008, as amended by sec-, tion 13 of the Amending Act. 1911. The' claim in the action is for £IOOO by pk'.mtiff, as daughter of the late John Robin, who died as the result of an accident on the steamer Wanaka on ApHl 2, 1917. Defendant issues a summons to amend the claim by reducing it to £^oo.
Mr. Justice tHosking dismissed the summon?, and defendant now seeks to have that decision reviewed by the court. Decision was reserved.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1917, Page 2
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172APPEAL COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1917, Page 2
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