PILLAGED GOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 6

PILLAGED GOODS

: CLAIM AGAINST THE RAILWAY.

■ (Peb United Pbess Association.) . , CHRISTCHI'RCH. May 1 .. A. Claim against the Kailway Department for the price of goods-which it is alleged ); were.piKageci between Lyttelton and Christi church was heard in the Magistrate's Court . to-day, Thq .plaintiffs, Bing. Haras, and Co ~ claimed £45 Is and duty f£6 16s) on ac- ; -cotjnt of' a roll of doth missing from a case unloaded at Lyttelton and delivered ■' tp plaintiffs. Counsel said that a claim ■ had been made on the Railway Depart- , ment, ,but the department refused to recog- • pise it on the, ground that there had been no reasonable opportunity for pillage while : the goods were on the railway. The New Zealand'Shipping Company repudiated liability for pillage, having received a clean receipt from the Railway Department. ’ Counsel for the defence urged that the ■ plaintiff firm be nonsuited, as there was no H 'legal proof that the missing goods were B ever in the ease, and that there was no B proof that the pillage occurred on the B railway. H The Magistrate reserved his decision on ■ the question of nonsuit. The case is not B completed.