LIABILITY OF CORPORATIONS.
(united truss association.) Dunedin, June 16, The case of Miller v. Corporation of Dunedin, a claim of £SOO for damages for injury received through the blasting at Dowlingsfcreet, was concluded to-day. Mr Justice Williams, in summing up, said that the Corporation were responsible, because the opsr.asions were constructed on one of the streets of tbe city. The streets were vested in the Corporation, who controlled them. It was one of the powers of the Corporation to bring the streets to their proper level, and these operations had been conducted partly for that purpose, and the persons at work in the street had been appointed by the Corporation. Under these circumstances, the Government finding the money for the works aid Dot shift whe responsibility from the Covp°* afcion ; A * eE ‘ diet was returned for £SO, and the -Judge certified for costs on the lowest scale.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 10
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