The amount was claimed as damages for alleged breach of contract under which the defendant company accepted an agency from the plaintiff company to sell Watson's whiskies in New South Wales.
The judge said defendants had failed to make advocacy of the sale of Watson's whiskies the feature of their business hi Scotch whisky. They had followed the easy course of accepting orders rather than "pushing."
His Honor also found the defendants guilty of negligence in bottling Watson's whisky, in the course of which liners composed mainly of lead instead of pure tin had been used in the stoppers. Discoloration of some of the whisky had followed, and the result had been a setback to the reputation of the whisky.
The question of damages is to bo argued on Monday. It is understood that tlie costs in the case already exceed £20,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1935, Page 7
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