APPEAL IN A LICENSE CASE
MAGISTRATE'S DECISION RE- . VERSED. (Uxitsd Pmaai Ampclmxom.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr Justice Chapman delivered judgment to-day in an appeal by the Police against the Magistrate's decision in dismissing a charge of permitting drunkenness against Christopher Jansen, licensee of the Wellington Hotel. . Jansen was away at the time, and it was held by the Magistrate that he was not responsible for wrongful acts of a barman. In his judgment, His Honor took the opposite view, and held that a publican's authority was delegated to the barman. He upheld the appeal, and remitted the case to the Magistrate.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1915, Page 3
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