LADY’S DRESS SPOILED.
DYERS AND CLEANERS SUED. VIEW OF MAGISTRATE, Mr E. Page, S.M., has given judgment in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court concerning the ease in which Mrs L. B. Thompson claimed £l7 ,12sdamages from W. Barber and Company, dyers' and cleaners, alleging that they had spoilt her dress, which was taken to the firm for the purpose of having a chocolate stain removed by a process of dry cleaning. Plaintiff stated that she gave orders, for the garment to be dry cleaned, whereas the stajn being difficult to remove defendants had rubbed it Out, and in so doing the- pleats had been spoilt. The Magistrate held that the wfdrk had not been done negligently by defendants, but he considered that Barber and Co. should have notified Mrs Thompson when it was found that the stain could not be removed without injury to the pleadings. Plaintiff wa,s awarded £lO 10s damages, with costs at £4 14s.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5011, 9 August 1926, Page 1
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156LADY’S DRESS SPOILED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5011, 9 August 1926, Page 1
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