CLAIM FOR £7OOO
METHVENS LTD. AiS DEPENDANTS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Nov. 4. A claim for £7OOO for a breach oi contract was heard before Mr Justice MacGregor in the 'Supreme 'Court this morning, plaintiffs being Welby Earle Fisher, medical practitioner, 'Tauniaranui, and Circulators Ltd., manufacturers of water heaters, Auckland, and the defendants Metlivens Ltd., brassfounders, Dunedin. Messrs West (Auckland) and Gordon (Yaumaranui) represented plaintiffs, who stated that from 1924 to 1926 defendants had manufactured and sold to plaintiff's and others 300 Fisher twin circulators and in nearly all had, without the consent of the patentee or the plaintiff company, caused a hole to be bored which nullified the effect of patentee’s ■contrivance, causing loss and damage in rectifying u,s well as loss in overseas trade. Counsel’s statement was that Metlivens, who -were to exploit the invention commercially, failed to manufacture to design. The case is proceeding.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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147CLAIM FOR £7000 Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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