NOT TOTAL LOSS.
WAR LORD CASE CONCLUDED. THE JUDGE’S OPINION. Fer Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 23. At the conolusiou of the. hearing of evidence in connection with the claim for £2650 insurance, alleged to be due in respect, of the schooner War Lord, which stranded at Waikokopu in July last, Mr Justice Ostler said that it seemed to him that all that plaintiff had proved was constructive total loss. The War Lord had not ceased to be a ship. The only point then was the meaning of the policy when it referred to “absolute, total loss, to be which, he thought, a ship would require to be a complete wreck. Mr Lusk, for plaintiffs, submitted that the evidence showed tho vessel to be so badly damaged as nob to justify any action being taken to refloat her. He contended that the owners were irretrievably deprived of tho use of the vessel for the purpose for which it had formerly been used His Honor said that it was clear that the vessel had not ceased to be a ship and that the owners had not even lost the use of it. Their giving notice of abandonment did not alter thd position. This being so the plaintiffs could not succeed and must be non-suited, with posts.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17571, 23 June 1925, Page 8
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