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Died While Working – Compensation for Loss of Son

March 1928

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 07 March 1928

Died While Working.

Judgment Reserved in a Compensation Claim.

A point of considerable interest was raised yesterday at Rotherham County Court. A miner, Joe Muascroft (36), while getting coal at Kilnhurst Colliery on November 26th, died suddenly from heart failure.

His father, George Muscroft, of 17, Sandhill Road, claimed compensation. He is 68 years of age and unable to work. The son had contributed £2 10s. a week towards the household expenses and another son £1  a week. The house was in the name of the son who was killed, and that son received home coal from the respondents, Stewart and Lloyd, owners of the mine.

In the household were also the mother, a crippled son aged 25, and daughter, who did not work. It was argued that the fatal seizure was due to weakness involved in getting coal.

The answer of the respondents was that death was not the result of an accident arising out of or in the course of the man’s employment, but from natural causes.

Judgment was reserved until the next Court.

 

Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 28 March 1928

For Loss of Son.

Judge Lias, iiotlierham County Court, yesterday, gave judgment for £120 to George Muscroft, of 18. Sandhill road, Rawmarsh, whose son, Joe, aged died in the Kilnhurst Colliery of Messrs. Stewart. Limited, by whom he was employed miner, on 26 November 1927.

The facts of the case had been heard at a previous sitting.