R v Clements - [1953] NZLR 857

Workers' Compensation — Liability for Compensation — Tuberculosis — Worker infected with Tubercle Bacilli Earlier in Life, but with Established Resistance — Disease contracted or reactivated within Twelve Months before Disablement — Medical Evidence showing Contraction or Reactivation of Disease not due to Nature of Employment — Onus on Worker to show Work had Bearing in Fact on Reactivation or Contraction of Disease — Onus not discharged — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 10 — Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, 1947, s 42(1).