Wilton Collieries Ltd v Mary Brown Connew - [1936] NZLR 15

Workers' Compensation — Jurisdiction — Contracting-out Agreement — Interpretation of Agreement made by Worker that no Compensation payable by Employer in respect of Incapacity or Death due to Named Disease — Death of Worker before entering on his Service under such Agreement — Hypothetical Case — No Jurisdiction in Supreme Court or Court of Appeal — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 17 — Declaratory Judgments Act, 1908, ss 3, 9.