O'Meara v Westfield Freezing Company Limited - [1947] NZLR 253

Damages — Workers' Compensation — Law Reform — Damages recoverable for Benefit of Deceased Worker's Estate — Action by the Representative of a Deceased Worker, accidentally Killed during course of Employment, for Damages for the Curtailment of such Worker's Expectation of Life — Whether such Action maintainable — "Worker" — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 55 — Law Reform Act, 1936, s 3 — Statutes Amendment Act, 1937, s 17.