CLAIM AGAINST SHIPOWNERS.
~ ACTION IX SUPREME COURT. "Probably the final question for your Honor to decide will be whether it was a negligent act for the defendants to stow ■ a substance known as cocoa butter on the ! top of .1 quantity of wallpaper," was the : statement nnide at the Supreme Court i to-day by Mr. A. If. Johnstone on behalf f of Hill and Plummer. Ltd., oil and colour , merchants, Auckland, who claimed £102 ■ 0/ from the master and owners of the i American ship Liberty. The case came ■ before his Honor Mr. Justice Adams. Mr. iJohnstonc said that when the ■ wallpaper in question arrived at Auek- ; land from New York in its alleged dam- - aged condition it was put up for auction, ; and although its value in good order was -. £131 it only realised £20. The balance • was the amount claimed from the defeni dant shippers. i The defence was a denial of liability. (Proceeding.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 224, 20 September 1921, Page 2
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