EIRE AT MUNGAROA
LOSS OF FLAX CROP. SUPREME COURT AWARDS DAMAGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The legal battle over lire damage to a flax area al. Mungaroa. in the Wailaceville district, entered its finalphase in the Supreme Court al Wellington last night, where at midnight a special jury awarded plaintiffs £1.044 damages and costs. Plaintiffs. as executors under the will of David Creighton Martin, were awarded £2.750 damages, plus £282 costs, against defendant. Sir Kenneth Douglas,, a solicitor of Wellington, on a £5.000 claim heard in May. 1938. The Court of Appeal later granted an order for a new trial on the question of damages only. "The issue.” said the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Myers, in summing up. "was whether or not there was a crop of millable flax on the property at. Ihe time of the lire and what was its worth to the plaintiffs, immediate or potential.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1939, Page 4
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151EIRE AT MUNGAROA Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1939, Page 4
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