CLAIM AGAINST UNION COMPANY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13905, 5 November 1919, Page 4

CLAIM AGAINST UNION COMPANY.

PeH PltliSS Abbociatio.v. AUCKLAND, Nov. o.

An action of considerable importance" was begun in the Supreme Court. Grove and Company suing the I'nion Company for CIOS7 in respect of a thousand eases of Canadian apples, being the difference between what, they would have fetched and what they did realise after having been ovcitsitried lo Sydney by the Makura after that vessel was <tuarantincd at. the beginning of December. It was contended that the Fiiion Company should have diseharge<l the a|>ples inio lighters at the ((Uarantinc station. They were not delivered in Auckland until" January 'l'2. when local apples, were on the market.. The ease i» taken as a te.sl as ad'ecting other Auckland claims in respect of 11.000 cases of apples and total claiuis of about ten thousand pounds. The ea.se was heard before Mr Ji\stii'c Cooper and a jury. Mr Skcrrett\aiid l)r Hainford appear for plaintiffs and Sir J. Kindlay and Mr MeVeagh for defendants.