PILLAGED GOODS.
CLAIM AGAINST THE RAILWAY. CHRISTCHURCH. May 1. A claim against the Railway Department for the pQce of goods which it is alleged were pillaged between Lyttelton and Christ* church was heard in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The plaintiffs, Bing, Harris, unfl Co., claimed £43 Is and dutv (£6 16s) on account of a roll of cloth missing from a case unloaded at Lyttelton and delivered to plaintiffs. Counsel said that a claim had been made on the Railway Department, but the department refused to recognise it on the ground that there had been no reasonable opportunity for pillage while the goods were on ihe railway. The New Zealand Shipping Company repudiated liability for pillage, having received a clean receipt from (he Railway Department. Counsel for the defence urged that the plaintiff firm lie nonsuited, as there was no legal proof that the missing goods were ever in the case, and that there was no proof that the pillage occurred on the railway. The Magistrate reserved his decision on the question of nonsuit. The case is nob completed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 41
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