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Surname
CURRAN or CURSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
12
Month
10
Year
1927
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Dykehead area
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Shotts Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
12 October 1927: Wormen's Compensation - Shotts Company's Appeal - In the House of Lords yesterday, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Dunedin, and L.ords Shaw, Buckmaster. And Carson reserved judgement in the appeal of the Shotts Iron Co, (Ltd.) against an interlocutor of the First Division of the Court of Session which affirmed an award of Sheriff-Substitute Marcus Dods at Airdrie. Who allowed not only the ordinary "lump sum " compensation, but also the additional "children's allowance" in respect, of the eight brothers and sisters of Thos. Curson, a workman who met with a fatal accident while in the employment of the appellants, in such circumstances as to give rise to a claim by his dependants for workmen's compensation. The Company contended that the words”child”' and "children" in the Act of 1925 meant the immediate descendant or descendants of the workman. [Scotsman 23 November 1928]