SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

GISBOE-NE, July 8. An action, important to engineers--and cold storage firms, concluded on. Saturday, after a ten days' hearing be- - fore Mr Justice Hosking' and a special? jury. J. J. Niven and Co. claimed £608----from the Poverty Bay Meat Co., balance alleged to be due on a compressor. The Meat Company counter-claimed for£4ooo damages, owing to a breakdown of the- compressor. At the end of the* plaintiff's case the defendants abandoned defence to Niven's claim. Thequestion of the counter-claim centred., around the efficiency of a valve which broke in the compressor. The jury, after four hours' consideration returned 7 a verdict for .£3OO for the Meat Company, being £200 to provide another set of valves and cover, and £100 torepair a cracked bedplate of the compressor Motions by the plaintiffs for judgment on the claim, and by the defendants for judgment on the counterclaim, were adjourned to Wellington, where the question of costs will befought out.