ALLEGED FLOODING OF A BILLIARD ROOM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 10

ALLEGED FLOODING OF A BILLIARD ROOM

AJ'WOAL AGAINST A DECISION. Silling in Chambers in the Supreme Court yesterday, His Honour llr. Justice Honking heard furtlic , argument in a easfl on appeal which was commenced the .previous day. The appi'iij was from i\ decision of the Jlngislrale in the rase of Albert Edward Hugh and J anion Kirk, billiard saloon proprietors, v. George Scoll, trading as Scoll Motor Agency, Dixon Street, Wellington. In Ihu Magistrate's Court Ilie plaintiffs claimed, and wen? awarded. JKSIi damages by reason of a riglit-nl'-way lending irom IJixcin Street lo Hie buck entrance of the pliiintill's' billiard saloon frouting Manners Street, being wrongly re-graded and covered with cinders; also by iCiisou of the fact that the npouting un defendant'.* building abuUins: on Ihe right-of-way and adjoining phintinV premises being insufficient to carry oIV the wnltr into the gully-tnip below, which wns iilro choked with cinders liroin the f-uiliice of the right-of-way. As a result the plaintiffs' premises were- Hooded with wnler lo a depth of several JuHio« and the Door covered knee-deop with a deposit of cinders unit ashes. Much ilamnge was done to the furniture ami littings of the billinrd saloon. Against this decision the defendants appealed. A Her hearing tniinspl His Honour reserved his decision. Mr. T. Young appeared for Hie appellant and .Mr. CI. Wnlson for Hie respondents.