INTERESTING COMPENSATION CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 1. An interesting compensation case, Carruthers v. Unipn Company, was argued before the Arbitration Court, to-day. The claimant's case was that while working as a greaser on the Mararoa he felt a quadrant to sec if it was warm, when the pumping lever came down and took off two fingers of his left hand. He contended that this injury constituted a partial incapacity, and claimed £2OO compensation. The accident took place twelve miles south of Cape Campbell on a trip from Wellington to Lyttelton. The company set up the defence that the partial incapacity that may have been suffered may not endure during life, and is therefore not a permanent injury; also that the accident occurred on the high seas, and was beyond the territorial waters of New Zealand. Judgment was reserved.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8476, 2 July 1907, Page 5
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148INTERESTING COMPENSATION CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8476, 2 July 1907, Page 5
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