DUNEDIN.
Saturday.
Important Judgments.
Two important judgments were delivered by His Honor Judge Williams yesterday in banco. The first concerned the claim made by Briscoe and Co. against the Minister of Public Works for goods destroyed in the fire at the railway sheds last year. The Judge held that at the time of Ihe fire the department had the custody of the goods simply for the purpose of completing their contracts as carriers, and therefore incurred the liability of carriers, and were responsible for ordinary loss. In the case of Pearsell v. the Lands Board, His Honor was satisfied that several purchasers were used as instruments by Gellibrand and Co.; also that there was evidence from which the jury might infer that the purchasers must have been aware that they were not really taking up land on their own account. The appeal was, therefore, dismissed.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4887, 8 September 1884, Page 2
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145DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4887, 8 September 1884, Page 2
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