SAWMILLER'S CLAIM.
£BOO DAMAGES AWARDED, i SUPREME COURT ACTION. (B> Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. "The shoemaker should sticktohislast," was an adage quoted by Hla Honour Mr Justice Stringer at the Auckland Supreme-Court yesterday, when summing up in the jury action in which Arthur Clark, sawmiller, against Sydney Trant Pateman and, Douglas Horatio Dale Hunter, flaxmillers and sawmillere, Patetonga. Plaintiff claimed £1395 on the ground of alleged breach of a timber contract. . '';. .
His Honour said that had defendants stuck to flaxmilling instead, of taking up sawmilling they probably would have been far better off. There was an obligaion on them, in the agreement to supply plaintiff with loge to the mill's fullest capacity, and this was not carried out. He advised the jury, if they found the contract was wrongly terminated by defendants, to calculate damages on 140,000 feet of timber and not on 1,250,000 feet, which plaintiff alleged was on the property, as the latter was not supported in the evidence.
The jury awarded a verdict in favour of plaintiff, to whom they awarded £3OO damages.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1434, 1 December 1923, Page 5
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177SAWMILLER'S CLAIM. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1434, 1 December 1923, Page 5
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