Important Railway Case
(PKB UNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, January 25. The case of Studholme v. the Queen, which has been before the Supreme Court for some days, was decided this evening, when the jury gave a verdict for defendant (?) plaintiff) for £400. The claim was made, on the ground that a spark from a railway engine had set fire to the plaintiff's run, notwithstanding that it was proved that a spark deflector had been in use on the tngine furnace. The jury found that the Government had been guilty of negligence, chiefly on the gr«und that brown coal had been used at the time.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 97, 26 January 1886, Page 3
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104Important Railway Case Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 97, 26 January 1886, Page 3
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