LIABILITY OF CARRIERS
Reserved judgment was delivered ia the Magistrate's Court -to-day, by Mr. W. G. Biddell, S.M., in the case in which the A.W.R. Halving Machine Company claimed from the New Zealand Espress Company, Ltd., the sum of £23 Is 6d, being the value of certain brass tubing sfiifted from Wellington to. Lyttelton on the Queen of the South, and lost in the wreck of that vessel on 10th May, 1919, off Cape Campbell. The report of the Court of Inquiry showed that the loss of the vessel was primarily due to the light on Cape Campbell being obscured by. fog, and no other lights or land mai'ks being visible, by which the master might have realised that the vessel was not making a. safe course. The defendant company shipped a portion of the goods on the vessel, and the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants wers liable, as common carriers for the loss of the goods. After reviewing the authorities quoted by counsel, Mr. Eiddell gave judgment for plaintiffs for the amount claimed, : and costs £4 2s. At tha hearing Mr. T. Neave appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Morrison for the defendants.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1919, Page 7
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194LIABILITY OF CARRIERS Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1919, Page 7
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