CIVIL BUSINESS
RESERVED JUDGMENT. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., delivered n> served judgment iu the case in which the A.W.R. Milking Machine Co., Ltd., claimed from the N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., tho 6«m of 1'33 Is. Gd., being tlm valuo of certain brass tubing shipped from Wellington to Lyttellon on the Queen of tho South and lost in the wreck of that vessel on May Ift, 1919, ofT Capo Campbell. The report of the Court of Inquiry showed that tho loss of the vessel was primarily due to the light on. Capo Campbell L'iphtliouso, being ol> fieiired hy fog and no other lights or landmark's being visible by which the master might have realised that the vessel was not making a safe course. Tho defendant company shipped a i»rtion of tho goods ou the vessel, and tho plaintiffs alleged that the defendants were liablo as common carriers for the low o? tho goods. After reviewing tho authorities (|iioted by counsel, His Worship l»avo judgment for tho plaintiffs for tlio amount claimed, with oosts M 2s.
At the hearing Mr. T. Neave appeared for tlie plain tilts and Mr. Morrison, for the defendants.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 14
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192CIVIL BUSINESS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 14
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