AN APPEAL ALLOWED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, March 9. i At the Supreme Court to-day, the Wallace County Council appealed against the dacision of the Magistrate in the case of Alfred Coster v. the County Council, in which the Magistrate had ' awarded £SO damages and £6 18s expenses alleged to have been incurred by Coster through the loss of sheep, the result of negligence on the part of County, workmen in having failed to repair a fenceopened by them in connection with road construction. The grounds of the appeal were that the Magistrate was wrong in holding defendants guilty of negligence, and that there was no cvidnece to show how the sheep were lost, cr to justify the Magistrate in holding defendants responsible. The appeal was allowed, with costsamounting to £lO 10s.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 4
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132AN APPEAL ALLOWED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 4
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