INSURANCE CLAIM

Grey River Argus, 24 June 1925, Page 3

INSURANCE CLAIM

-**- - : >N Si TIOtINER W.'.lt LORD. I’ ■> I ’’i I) AGAINST OWNERS. GISBORNE, June Jit. At the conclusion of the hearing of the evidence Justice Ostler said it seen.ed to him that till the plaintiff had proved was his construction of total loss. The War Lord had not ceased to be a ship. The only point then was the moaning of the policv when it referred to “absolute total loss,’’ to |,e which (he thought) the ship would require Io b a complete wreck. Mr Lusk, for the plaintiff, submitted that the evidence showed the vessel to be so badly damaged as not Io ,jusli_ iy any action being taken to refloat her. lie contended that the owners were irretrievably deprived of the use oi the vessel for the purpose for which it had formerly been used. He- Honor said it was (dear that the vessel had not ceased to be a ship, and that the owners had not even lost tin' use of it. ’I heir giving notice of abandonment did not alter the , (l ,si lion. This being so. plaintiffs i-imld not succeed and must be non.suited, with costs.