NEW TRIAL GRANTED
DAMAGES HELD TO BE EXCESSIVE j, telegraph—Press AssoclaUOD WELLINGTON, September 27. The damages of £2750 awarded by a jury against Sir Kenneth Douglas to Percy Higginbottom and others for a fire which spread from Sir Kenneth Douglas's property and burned an estimated area of 300 acres of growing flax at Mangaroa were held by Mr Justice Blair in a reserved judgment to-day to be excessive. A new trial was granted.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21153, 28 September 1938, Page 8
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