SUPREME COURT.
QUESTION OF DAMAGE TO MO(" n By Telegraph.—'Press Association: Waiiganui, Last Night. At tlio Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice and a special jury, a civil action was concluded in which the Wanganui Harbor Board claimed from tile New Zealand Refrigerating Company an amount of £1)54, alleged damage to the south mole on the occasion of the wreck of defendant company's schooner Eunice. Plaintiffs alleged negligence on the part of the defendant company's servants, and stated that the amount claimed was the actual cost of the repair work to the mole that had to he effected. Defendants admitted that, their vessel collided with the mole, but hald that the accident was due to the elements on the occasion, and that the master of their vessel had taken . every precaution possible in entering the port. A large amount of expert nautical evidence was called by both sides, ' The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant company, with costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1918, Page 8
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162SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1918, Page 8
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