SHEEP-DIP CASE
NEW TRIAL SOUGHT APPLICATION LODGED WITH COURT
■Ah application for a new trial lues been tiled in the Supreme Court on behalf of the defendants in the case in which a jury awarded Alan Grant, of Waimale, stuck breeder, £B2l 2s special damages, and £IOOO general damages against Cooper, MacDougall, and Robertson, Ltd., of Manchester, .-beep dip manufacturers. The case lasted 12 days, and arose over the death of 37 of plaintiffs stud and (lock rams, and injury to 150 others, allegedly through absorptive poisoning from a dip manufactured by defendant. Mr Justice Norlhcruft and a special jury heard the case. Mr W. J. Sim and with him Mr T. A. Gresson appeared for plaintiff and Mr A. T. Donnelly and Mr A. M. Gould, of Auckland, for defendants. The jury found that the sheep were killed or injured by absorptive poisoning, and that there was negligence on the part of the defendant in failing to warn users of its dip of the risk involved. 'The decision on whether there was absorptive poisoning was decided by a majority verdict.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22717, 23 May 1939, Page 13
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