APPEAL COURT.
IIABILITY OF PUBLIC BODIES. PER TEESS AS iOCTATION Wellington, November 4. The Appeal Court, in Blunden v. the Oxford Road Dis'rict, by : *s ju igment allowing the appeal, lays down the important principle that a local body authorises the construction of work, bona fide believing it to be within i's statutory powers, it will be liable as for a tort to anyone sustaining damage by reason of the construction of such work, and cmnot avoid responsibility on the ground that its acts ;were ultra vires and therefore unauthorised.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 261, 5 November 1901, Page 3
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90APPEAL COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 261, 5 November 1901, Page 3
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