Sutton v Esive Singh - [1940] NZLR 695

Workers' Compensation — Delay in Commencing Action — Mistake — Father of injured Worker, a Minor, mistakenly signing Petition for Appointment as Guardian ad litem before a Justice of the Peace — Whether Delay occasioned by "Mistake" or "other Reasonable Cause" — Assessment of Compensation — Worker under Twenty-one — Post-accident Increase of Wages — Effect — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, ss 9, 27 (4) — Workers' Compensation Rules, 1939 (Serial No 1939/8), Reg 5 (8).