WHICH IS RIGHT?
We are afraid the Jaw is not yet the perfection of human reason. It will be remembered (says the Dunedin “Times”) that in Reid against the Friendly Societies Hall Company the New Zealand Court of Appeal held that the Company was liable to Mr Reid, then tenant, for someone having left the tap running in the lavatory of their building. In a very simiiar case that has just come to hand by the Suez mail, Stevens against Woodward, the Court of Commons Pleas in England, Grove and Bindley judges, have decided the directly contrary of the New Zealand Court. Judge Bindley said :“I do not see how a man is to be held responsible for the act of another, who, as a trespasser, comes into his room during his absence, and leaves a tap running."’ It is worth noting that the “ trespasser” was the defendant’s clerk, but he had been warned not to go into the room where the tap was. Both Courts cannot be right. Which is right, the English or the New Zealand ?
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2577, 24 June 1881, Page 2
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178WHICH IS RIGHT? South Canterbury Times, Issue 2577, 24 June 1881, Page 2
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