KUNI vs. STATE GOLD MINING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF SARKODEE J. The plaintiff who is employed by the co-defendants, the Prestea Goldfields Ltd., as a machine driver was on 11 July 1974 injured whilst working underground at the said mines. He suffered a compressed fracture of the twelfth thoraxic vertebrae resulting in the paralysis of the lower limbs. The accident occurred when the plaintiff acting upon instructions was working as a shovel boy; a job which was not part of his normal duties. In the course of drilling and shovelling loose rocks a mass of loose graphite fell on him causing him those injuries as a result of which he has been in hospital since the date of the accident. Originally the action was brought against the defendants only in their capacity as a gold mining corporation carrying on business at Prestea. After the evidence of the plaintiff upon application made on his behalf the Prestea Goldfields Ltd. were joined as co-defendants. In his amended statement of claim which followed the joinder the plaint...