CLAIMS AGAINST A SHIPPING COMPANY
SHIPPING NOTE CONDITIONS AS A DEFENCE (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Tho Court of Appeal heard argument in three cases, Wallnhh Soma Moral, Charles William Raynhr, and Mary Harris, all versus the Northern Shipping Company. The three eases involved the same legal considerations, and were hoard together. The statement of claim in Moral’s ease alleged that by an agreement made between Moral and the respondent company to carry 130 cases of bananas from Oneliunga to Now Plymouth the goods were delivered on the wharf at Onelumga hut were not loaded by the respondents. As a result the hailanas were rendered valueless. The respondent company denied that there was any contract‘to carry the goods, hut if ‘there was a contract then it was subject to the special condition si endorsed on tho slapping note, which‘exempted respondent from liability. In Raynor’s case the claim was in respect of 10 cases and in Harris’s three cases. Argument is proceeding.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1922, Page 5
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162CLAIMS AGAINST A SHIPPING COMPANY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1922, Page 5
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