DESTRUCTION OF BACH
LABOURER'S CLAIM FAILS I UtOM Dili OWN (.'OIiItKSI'ONDKN (J HAMILTON, Tuesday Reserved judgment was given by .Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M.. in tin' Hamilton .Magistrate's Court to-day in n ease in which Daniel Torpey, labourer, (<len Massey, sought to ri'i-ovcr the value oi a two-roomed hach and its contents from Wilton Collieries (It).'il), Limited. The plaint ill" claimed that a spark from one of the company's railway engines ignited fern and gorse, the fire spreading to the bach. The magistrate held that the bach was situated on I lie company s property and that plaintiff's tenure of the sito was a hare licence. Although there had been an undoubted failure on defendant's part to keep the sile of the lino clear, the magistrate said he was not prepared to hold that this was a duty in the case of ;i hare licence. Judgment was given for the defendant company. Leave for defendant to apply lor costs was reserved. Security lor appeal was lived at CIO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23870, 22 January 1941, Page 9
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168DESTRUCTION OF BACH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23870, 22 January 1941, Page 9
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