CLAIM FOR STORAGE OF SALT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 23, 22 October 1919, Page 5

CLAIM FOR STORAGE OF SALT

JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFFS. In the Supreme Court yesterday morning, His Honour the Chief Justice 'Sir Robert Stout) h<wd the case of C'atliie, Dempster, and M'Oallum v. the Bond Manufacturing Company, of Melbourne and Wellington, salt merchants. Mr. P. IT. Pixtnam appeared for tne plaintiffs, and Mr. M. Myers for the defendant.?. The facts of the case, as set out in tho statement of claim, were that on or about June 25, 1918, ihe plaintiffs, who are mercantile and produce brokers, under instructions from defendants, paid for and stored on belia.'f (.f the defendants 59 tons of coarse, salt. There was owing to the plaintiffs in respc.t of the salt the sum of .£535 '6s. 5d., and plaintiffs claimed for that amount, with costs. The statement of defence denie:l that the plaintiffs were instructed to pay for and store the 50 tons of snlt, and claimed that the plaint'ffs purchnrid the salt on their own account, and paid for the same. Defendants admitted that plaintiffs applied for payment and that tbev had refused to make repayment. Further, the defendants claimed that if it were shown that pfnint'fFs. paid for and stored the salt under instructors from and en bfhalf of defendants (which they denied) then the defendants claimed that the salt' which plaintiffs had in store was not the salt which wag shipped to them by defendants. '•Mr. 'Myers said that he had not reoe.ived any instructions from *-he defendants to oppose the claim; and hn could not therefore offer any opposition. Judgment was given, for the amount claimed, with costs.