DAMAGE TO LAUNCH
CLAIM AGAINST FISHERMAN NO NEGLIGENCE PROVED Judgment for defendant with £ll 5s costs and £4 witnesses’ expenses were entered at the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the case, heard yesterday, in which Charles Nelson, fisherman, Freeman’s Bay, sued Ivor O. Parry, shipmaster, Devonport, for £216 for alleged damage done to his launch Emerald. It was alleged by plaintiff that the damage was caused by defendant’s negligence in the mooring of a timber raft that had drifted down and crushed , the launch. The Magistrate said he was satisfied that defendant had moored the logs safely and done all he could in the circumstances. Afterwards the heaviest storm experienced in Auckland for 30 years had caused the logs to break adrift. “It was plaintiff’s obligation to prove negligence,” concluded the ■ Magistrate, “and that he has failed to do.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 11
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145DAMAGE TO LAUNCH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 11
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