COURT CASES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1439, 27 April 1905, Page 3

COURT CASES.

IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. .(Fee Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. Judgment was given this morning by Mr Denniston in the ease of Warner’s Ltd. v. the Lyttelton Times Co., an action for an injunction restraining defendants causing a nuisance working their machinery under rooms occupied by plaintiffs, the proprietors of Warner’s Hotel. His Honor held ,on the faots that the noise and vibration due to the working of the machinery did cause substantial inconvenience and consequent loss to plaintiff. His Honor was satisfied that the plaintiff company would not have entered into an agreement to lease the rooms from defendants had they known what would happen re noise and vibration. Thera was also an. appreciable inconvenience in the way of vibration in some of the bedrooms in plaintiff company’s freehoid. The case would by consent ef the parties be removed to the Court of Appeal for legal argument. In the case Keddie v. tho Corporation of Timaru, an appeal from the judgment of the S.M. at Timaru on the question whether a corporation abbatoir is liable to be registered under the Factories’ Act, His Honor held that the Slaughterhouse Inspecting Act 1900 must, so far as it affeoted abattoirs, be read as overruling the Abattoirs Act. The appeal would bo dismissed. •