SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 5

SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES.

A GRASS FI BE. Electric Telegraph Press Association ] C liristehureh, Laast Night. | A claim lor damag— nlktgedly | caused by tlie spread ol a graas fire fiom one farm to another was eon- j eluded before Mr Justice Hordmau I and a special jury. Louis Henry ' Mas Idi sou. ot Seargid, shtvpfarmer, procv<-d,e<] against Archibald Earsh- | maim, of llurumii, slieepfainior, to recover tlie sum of .£]t)7(i Iff- Gd damages. 'The stalenieut odf claim set out that on August 11th. 1919. defendant. by hi- agent or servants, I'nusol a. fire to be lit on the property bolongmig tfit the defendant at lluruntii, adjoining tin' north-west boundary of the land belonging to the plain! iff The fire, plaintiff alleged', escaped or spread to the adjoining land belonging to him and caused damage to lit- property by burning grass and tussock thereon over a.n area of lSdt) acres. burning to death five sheep and damaging plaintiff’s fencing. Further, tlia’t. as a result of the firo plaintiff alley. 1 that, he had boon compelled, to sell (i‘2t! ewes from his lloek. and was deprived of the profit, of the wool and lambs therefrom. In consequence also be was compelled to remove fd-'l loves from that portion of the farm which bad b.s'ti burned, and to graze them on other lands, which lie was keeping for fatttonin - j»urj*os«vs. Last Iv, tin niv'inint of bring fort ,-d to sell I (526 owes, plaintiff was deprive.! of the lambs therefrom, and (lie flock was. rendered less valuable to him Defendant, denied that, the fire started on his property, hut alleged, that if. spread to it and danunged his property and that, of ot.liers The inrv awarded the plaintiff i’7ofl 19s 10.1 ami costs.