A SHIPPING CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 10332, 4 June 1897, Page 1

A SHIPPING CASE.

A oi?e of some interest to commercial people was heard at Wellington yesterday. It was that of John I)uthie and (Jo. v. the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. The plaintiff* claimed that they became holders for value of three bills of lading signed by defendants, whereby defendants became bound to deliver on arrival of the steamship Gothic, in New Zealand certain quantities of sash weights which the plaintiff company had ordered from a Birmingham manufacturer. When the Gothic arrived in Xoveiiib:r, lS!)(i, and again in March, 1897, defendants failed to deliver part of the sash weights specified in the bills of lading. They had since failed to deliver the floods specified, aad had tendered su3h weights which were of less weight than those ordered by the plaintiffs, and many of which were broken. Plaintiffs therefore claimed the sum of £64 from defendants. The defence was that the precise goods which were shipped in London, as shown by the " hatch sheet?," wore tallied out and delivered on ta the \V ellingtou wharf by the ship, and that there the responsibility of the ship ended ; thut in cas-es such as this where goods are packed loose and marks i:viy be indistinct. the consignees' duly is to be ready to take delivery of their goods. Tue S.M. reserved judgment.