Maguigan v Attorney-General - [1961] NZLR 950

Workers' Compensation — Liability for compensation — Coal lease imposing obligation on lessees to work coal — Coal won becoming property of lessees — Lessees not "contractors to whom a contract to perform any work in a coal mine" had been let — Lessor not liable to pay compensation to injured lessee — Workers' Compensation Act 1956, s. 2 (6).