PRIZE COURT CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11512, 7 October 1915, Page 6

PRIZE COURT CASE.

! IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. I (FIRM THAT TRADED WITH ENEMY Cv Telcyraph. - Pros* Association. —Cop Trigs;!, i (Received October 7, 11.tl'> a.m.) I,ON DON, October 0. t Sir Samuel Kvans, of the j Prize Court. delivering judgment. in j the steamer Bildster ease. said thar. the j ;■()]*> question lor decision related to ;1 he shipowners, Gunn and Co. claims I for Frpit;hi. and, Morton and Co.'r claim 'for the re' urn of £'oUoo paid to the ! shipowners in I'Psjioet of freight. The President held that- Morton and Co. could not he t)m• receiver Agaiivt the diipr.wnor*. who discharged their : oMi Ration by %• iviu-x up the lion on r;Omis, Foi the ,fc.">ooo v-fis paid, it tuk intended lo preserve the ; ,j;oods frr tho owners, whom Morton : and Co. 1,-unw to lie onemie>. nud to ; iv-iin juivavta've for Themselves or their eo-adven; tirers, the 31c t-a 1 lec-seHsel'iat"t. Tliev thus did not. hesitate to engage ,in commercial intercourse with tho | country's ejx-mios. T lie claim was with- | cut inundation. It required much nsi suranec to launch (he claim and to I jioipi \ c with it showed a reckless want of appreciation of poss'hle consequences. The iii'h laent. ot the C ourt- was tuat : the carjxo should be condemned as a ' prize, and that. out. of the proceeds oi c i j.") 1."), iho balance ot sum awarded , should he paid to the shipowners, and • that Morton and Co.'s claim against ! the shipowners and the Crown should be disallowed.