MUCH LITIGATION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 8

MUCH LITIGATION

CONCERNING DAMAGED IRON WIRE. (81 MUORAPH. —PRESS , ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A shipment of damaged galvanised iron wire at Auckland in January, 1919, has resulted in continued litigation*. The adjourned case came before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court. The Joh.i Burns Company, Ltd., claimed £7534 damages from the owners of the ship Westland for loss on the consignment due to alleged deterioration of the wire in shipment. Mr. Blair said the evidence taken at Chicago and New York would be submitted. It was not denied that the wire was received on boaid in good condition, and that when landed at Auckland the wire was corroded. Plaintiffs contended that this was due to the effects of caustic coda suffered by the careless stowage of the wire. For the defence it, would be maintained that the wire had been exposed to moisture just before shipment in America, and that this was not manifest at the time^of receipt of the cargo. Rust set in during carriage on the ship,' although every precaution was taken in stowage. Argument concerning lengthy technical evidence is being heard.