CLAIM AGAINST THE DUNEDIN CORPORATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7922, 14 April 1887, Page 5

CLAIM AGAINST THE DUNEDIN CORPORATION.

[by telegraph.—PßESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Wednesday, ' In the case commenced to-day in the Supreme Court, Sargood, Son, and Co. v. the City Corporation, claim £5500 damages for the flooding of plaintiffs' cellars, the plaintiffs alleged the drain was connected with the Corporation drain in a faulty and unskilled manner. The defendants allege that the drain was built in 1878, was properly built and managed, and that, in making it, the contractor employed by them necessarily cut through the plaintiffs' drain. They deny that they improperly constructed and maintained the High - street sewer or other drains, and that in consequence thereof drainage, silt, and sewage escaped from their drains into the plaintiffs' warehouse. The defendants farther deny that they were guilty of any negligence. A strong bar is engaged on both sides, and the case will probably last for a week or more, as a great quantity of expert evidence is to be taken. it has been deoided to try first the question of liability, and the question of damages will probably—if the case goes against the Corporation—be submitted to arbitration.