AGENTS FOR WHISKY SUED

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 11

AGENTS FOR WHISKY SUED

j CLAIM FOR DAMAGES IN | NEW SOUTH WALES (Received March 7, 11 p.m.) : SYDNEY, March 7. Judgment on several important issues in favour of B. Davis, Ltd., wine and spirit merchants, London, in a claim for £250,000 against Tooth and Company, Ltd., was delivered by Mr Justice Halse Rogers in the Commercial Causes Court. The amount was claimed as damages for a breach of contract under which the defendant company accepted an agency from the plaintiff company to sell Watson's whiskies in New South Wales. The judge said the defendants had failed to make advocacy of the sale of Watson's whiskies, the feature of their business in Scotch whisky. They followed the easy course of accepting orders rather than "pushing." The judge also found the defendants guilty of negligence in bottling Watson's whisky, in which liners composed mainly of lead, instead of pure tin, had been used in the stoppers. Discoloration of some of the whisky had resulted. The result had been a set-back to the reputation of the whisky. The question of damages will be argued on Monday. It is understood that the costs in the case alreadv exceed £20,000.