SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

DAMAGED CARGO CLAIM AGAINST A SHIPPING COftIPANY A claim against a shipping company, 111 respect of damaged cargo, was heard in the Supreme Court yesterday before His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman and a common jury of four. Tlio parties were the Wellington i'ublishiiig Ltd., of Dominion Avenue, Wellington, plaintiff, and tlio Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Ltd., shipowners, of Napier, defendants. Mr. i»l- Myers appeared for tho plaiutiff company, wlulo Mr. T. Young appeared lor the defendant company. It was set out in the statement of claim that, on or about April 27 last, 8-t cases of machinery and two bundles of platforms were''delivered to tho deieiidaut company hi London, to he shipped to Nii\v Zealand by the steamer Indrapura, and to be delivered in good order and condition to the plaintiff company. A printing cylinder and two roller stocks, when delivered tc tho plaintilt company, were so injured as 10 be. useless. Tho plaintiff company was consequently compelled to sond to iMigland for goods to replace them, and sintered damago by reason of the delay 111 the complete erection of the printing machine to which they belonged, the damage (said the- plaintiff company) was caused by the negligence ot tho defendant company in connection with the stowago or the handling ot tlio machinery, and the plaiur' ,o 0 i" pall -V therefore claimed the sum 01 rn °as damages. lhttßCßns a complete denial of .'liability, the defendant company saving that, ,f any Mods wore shipped ,e. the steamer Indrapura as alleged, they were, to be carried subject to the conditions set out in the bill of ladin-r issued m respect thereof. Defendant company denied that tho goods relZ?T° "i - tlle dement of claim weie shipped in K ood order and condition, and said that if those goods wore S g f >■ th £. ,la ~' e was "occasioned tnough nisufneicncy of packing and strength ot cases, but was not due to any negligence on the part of tho defendant company. Hearing of evidence had not concluded at 5 p.m., when tha Court adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. ( PRISONERS SENTENCED By Telegraph-Press Association Palmerston N,, February 24. . Tnlm t f ?,° n &, " ,rem ° Court, an old man, Jol nO Connor, for indecent assault on .1 little girl, was sentenced to two .years imprisonment and five vears" reformative treatment. William Newberry, f<,r indecent assault on a little hoy and girl,- was sentenced to five .years imprisonment and to ten years' reformative treatment. Tho defence in tins ease was that accused was mentally defective.