IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS.
Dunedin, This clay. Two important judgments were delivered by Judge Williams on Friday in Banco. Tho first concerned tho claim made by Briscoe and Co. against the Minister of Public Works for goods destroyed in the fire in tho railway sheds last year. Judge Williams held that at tho time of the fire the Department had the custody of the goods simply for the purpose of completing their contracts as carriers, and therefore incurred the liability of carriers, and were for ordinary loss. In the case of Pearsallv. the Lands Board, His Honor was satisfied that several purchasers wcro used as instruments by Gillibrand and Co. ; also, that there was evidence from which a jury might inter that the purchasers must have been aware that they were not really taking up land on
their own account. The appeal was therefore dismissed.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4097, 8 September 1884, Page 3
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143IMPORTANT JUDGMENTS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4097, 8 September 1884, Page 3
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