SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1316, 20 May 1897, Page 30

SUPREME COURT.

The case between Messrs Arnold Cheney and Co., of Auckland, shipping agents, and A. S. Paterson and Co., of Wellington, merchants, which arose through the fire on the barque Alice, was continued before Mr Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court last week. Mr Skerrett represented the plaintiffs, and Mr Bell the defendants. The statements of plaintiffs and defence appeared in our yesterday's issue. Mr Bell stated that he could bring evidence to contradict the captain's evidence, and to show that the defendants had lost a considerable sum of money on 37 tons of the cargo which the defendants had declined to accept. With reference to the counter-claim, his clients considered that the plaintiffs were liable for not having taken 10 tons of flax from the Queen of the South, and for having refused to accept 35 tons, which they were unable to accept in the terms of the contract. The defendants would not have ■oressed the counter-claim, .as the vessel had been unfortunately burned, and they did not wish to be hard on the plaintiffs, but as the •nlaintiffs had made a claim the defendants had been obliged to do likewise. Captain Bendall, Messrs C. S. Cross, G. H. Scales and Xi. M. Harris were examined for the defence. The case was adjourned, after all the evidence had been heard, until Monday morning.