IMPORTANT SHIPPING CASE.
—-—-—*» (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. In the shipping case Waterston v. the Westport Coal Company, claim £58 demurrage on the brigantine Sarah and Mary, Magistrate Poynton gave judgment for plaintiff'for £35. The question involved was whether defendant had the right of giving preference in loading to steamers notwithstanding an express stipulation in the contract that she was to be loaded in regular turn. If it was the custom of the port it was certainly a most extraordinary one, as, if a sufficent number of steamers arrived sailing vessels might be kept for months awaiting cargo.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 207, 6 September 1897, Page 4
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