COURT OF APPEAL.
A SHIPPING CASE. [Pee Uxitef Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, August 7. In Dnmmor and others v. tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, the Court of Appeal were unanimously of opinion that the company had no right to impose the conditions printed on the ticket in contravention of section .'l2O of tho Imperial Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and they were therefore invalid. They were further of opinion that the accidenjt was not caused by negligence in navigation. Judgment was ordered to bo entered for plaintiffs on the damages assessed by the jury in the court below, with costs in that court according to scale, with witnesses 1 expenses and disbursements, and costs in the Court of Appeal on the highest scaio and as from a distance.
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Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 5
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127COURT OF APPEAL. Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 5
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