FLOODING OF A BILLIARD ROOM
AN APPEAL DISMISSED. His Honour Mr, Justice Hosking delivered reserved judgment yesterday hi the Supremo Court in the case of George Scott, trading as Scott. Motor Agency, Dixon Street, Wellington, v. Albert Edward Hugh and Jimies Kirk, billiard saloon proprietors, Manners Street. The appeal was from a decisiou o't 'Air. W. G\ Kiddell, S.M., who awarded Hugh and Kirk JCB!i damages by reason of a right-of-way leading from Dixou Street lo tho back entrance of their billiard saloon, fronting Manners Street, being wrongly resraded and covered with cinders; also by reason of the fact that the spouting on Scott'a building abutting on tho right-of-way and adjoining tho billiard saloon being insufficient to carry off the water into tho gully trap below, which wa.s also .choked with cinders from the surface of the right-of-way. As a result tho billiard ealoon was flooded with water to ii depth of several inches, nnd the floor covered knee-deep with a deposit of cinders aud ashes. His Honour dismissed tho appeal, with costs .5)10 Ills. At'thij hearing Mr. T. Young appeared for iho appellant Scull, and Jlr. li. Watson for the. respondents.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 270, 3 August 1918, Page 9
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192FLOODING OF A BILLIARD ROOM Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 270, 3 August 1918, Page 9
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