AN APPEAL ALLOWED
MANAWATU DRAINAGE CASE,
The appeal of Matthew Oliver Tremain, from an order made for a new trial in an action brought by the Manawatu Drainage Boai'd against him in Palmerston North, was allowed by the Court of Appeal at Wellington last week. The jury had awarded appellant the sum of £SBB 15s as damages suffered by him through water as the result of the negligence of the board in failing to discharge a duty imposed upon it by section 25 of the Land Drainage Act, which provides: “The board shall cause all water-courses or drains from time to time vested in it or under its management to be. constructed and '.kept so as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and to be properly cleared and cleansed and maintained in proper order; and in default shall be liable to the owner or occupiers of any land for damage done thereto in consequence of or through the disrepair of any such watercourse or drain.” Tlje Court of Appeal considered the jury had acted rightly.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2951, 20 October 1925, Page 4
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178AN APPEAL ALLOWED Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2951, 20 October 1925, Page 4
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