APPEAL SUCCEEDS

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4179, 28 February 1934, Page 7

APPEAL SUCCEEDS

VACUUM OIL COMPANY SERVICE STATION PROPRIETOR (Per Press Association) Palmerston N., February 27 A reserved judgment was delivered this afternoon in the Supreme Court • n an. appeal by the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Ltd., against x decision of Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., .vhen he awarded James Henry Jodie, a service station pioprietor judgment against the company in a •ivil action for amounts allegedly* iverpaid for petrol. Mr Justice Blair, who heard the ippeal, upheld the company's appeal n a lengthy judgment, and directed ;hat judgment should be entered in. :h« Magistrate's Court for appellant, die record of the company, said the udge, showed that altogether deliveries to Bodle amounted- to 25.529 ?allons. The net result of gains and ibortages when comparisons were nade with measurements taken in petrol tank and lorry tank amounted to 16 gallons, which meant a proportion of .00062. \\ hen the deliveries were correct within four places of decimals, surely anyone, •ven a mathematician would translate those figures under the circumstances as constituting an ndnission on the part of the company is under delivery was not justified.