CARGO PILLAGING
IMPORTANT LEGAL POINT (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. A new point regarding the responsibility of shipping companies for pillaged cargo was raised in the Magistrate's Court to-day in a. case wherein Bing, Harris and Co. claimed £54 from Dalgety and Co., being the value of goods not delivered by the Tainui. Mr. A. L. Hanlon, for the defendants, moved for a non-suit on the ground* that no claim had been made within three days of the bill of lading, and there was no evidence thati the goods were in the package received by the ship. Mr. Sinclair, for plaintiff, contended that the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, prohibited, any such clause in a bill of lading inasmuch as it provided that no clause be inserted that would lessen the shipping companies' responsibility. This clause had saved Gripping companies enormous sums, Mr. Hanlon replied that such an interpretation would lay the companies open to all risks of fraud, Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., reserved bis deesion, slating that this was a serious point not determined before.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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178CARGO PILLAGING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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