TIMBER-MILL FIRE
Action Against Railways FINDING OF NEGLIGENCE By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 1. The hearing of a petition for £15,070 damages brought by the Morningside Timber Co., Ltd., against the Now Zealand Railways Department was concluded before Mr Justice Callan and a special jury in the Supreme Court tonight. The action was a sequel to an extensive fire on December 1, 1934, which, it nas alleged, originated from a spark from a railway engine passing the company’s premises, which adjoined the railway line. The jury decided that the fire was caused by the emission of materia! from engine AGO], and absolved the department from negligence in the use of a. particular type of spark arresfer on tho engine and from negligence in tho driving and firing of the engine, but it also found that there had been negligence in the construction, maintenance or condition of the spark arrester and in the use of brown coal in the engine at the time. The destruction of tho company's property was not contributed to by the negligence of the company in allowing dry grass or rubbish to remain on its property, or in failing to provide a tire-break. His Honour adjourned the matter in order that the quantum of damages
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 2 May 1936, Page 8
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