A DEFECTIVE COMPRESSOR.
SUBRBME OOORT ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Gisibornc, July 8. An action, important to engineers and cold storage firms, concluded on Saturday, after a ten days' hearing before Mr. Justice Hosking and a special jury. J. J. Niven and Co. claimed £6OS from the Poverty (Bay Meat Co., balance alleged to be due on a compressor. The Meat Company counter-claimed for £4OOO damages, owing to a breakdown of the compressor. At the end of the plaintiff case the defendants abandoned defence to Niven's claim. The question on the counter-claim centred around the efficiency of a valve which .broko, in tho compressor. The Meat Company urged that there had Ibeen insufficient clearance in the valve, and that the running of the compressor for Ave months was due to the fact that it was doing only light loads. Niven's company contended that the mishap was due to inadvertence on the part of the Meat Company's staff. The jury, to twhom no written issues were put, four hours' consideration, returned a verdict for £3OO for the Meat Company, being £2OO to provide another set of valves and cover, and £IOO to repair a cracked Ibedplate oif the compressor. Motions by the plaintiffs for judgment on the claim, and by tho defendants for judgment on the counter-claim, were adjourned to Wellington, where the question of costs will be fought out. Mr. A. if. Myers (Wellington) was for the Meat Company, and Mr. C. P. Skerrett (Wellington) for Nivens.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1917, Page 4
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245A DEFECTIVE COMPRESSOR. Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1917, Page 4
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