A CARRIER'S LIABILITY.
Mr-H. W. Brabant, S.M., gave judgment yesterday afternoon in the case E. M. Thomas v. Heywood and Co., in which plaintiff sued for £28, the value of goods missing from a> trunk which defendants contracted to 'carry from Christchurch to Auckland in January last. In giving his decision His Worship reviewed the facts, and then went into the defence (1) that defendants were not common carriers, and (2) that in any case the defendants did not hold goods as common carriers after they were. delivered in Auckland, but as warehousemen, and that the goods might have been abstracted while in the store of defendants' agents. His Worship held that defendants were common carriers, as they carried goods for everyone offering freight, and as such were liable under Section 25 of the Mercantile Law Act. Regarding the second contention, His Worship said that the charges for temporary warehousing and for cartage were included in the charge for carriage. Judgment accordingly passed for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs £5 3/.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 115, 16 May 1902, Page 8
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