DAMAGE TO A ROAD.
ACTION AGAINST BOSTiTWIOK AM) i ' SONS. EXTRAORDINARY DAMAGES: CLAIMED. CP be United Chess Association.) . TE KUTTT. July 24. The Wailomo County Council is suing Thomas Borthwick and Sons for £l9O extraordinary damage to the Te Kuiti-New Plymouth road, alleged to have been caused by icattlo driven to defendants works at' Waitan- One of the main points in plaintiffs case was that the ex-tra-ordinary damage bad been caused during the List two and a-half seasons, and that defendants had been operating on a large scale since the beginning of that time.,- 1 ' The defence called evidence to show that (ho damage was not as exclusive a* .plain-, tiffs claimed; that defendants had been, operating on a large scale since 1920, that. . .s Borl.hwick’s business was necessary to the _ welfare of the settlers, and that the cattle driven by them was less in _ proportion, to settlers’ cattle than the plaintiffs, -.,1 Decisicyi was reserved. t
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19233, 25 July 1924, Page 7
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