IMPORTANT SHIPPING CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11282, 1 June 1891, Page 2

IMPORTANT SHIPPING CASE.

(Peb United Press Association.) Dunedin, Ikay 29, A case of importance to shippers came before the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr D. M. Spedding being the plaintiff and the New Zealand Shipping Company the defendants. Tho plaintiff claimed i!4O damages. Shortly stated, the facts were that Collyns and Co., London, shipped by the Duke of Buckingham certain goods, and reserved the bills of lading, which purported on the face of them that the freight had been paid in London. The bills were sold in the open market, and parchased by Mr Spedding's agent. When the goods arrived here delivery was refused by the Shipping Company until the freight was paid. Mr Spedding having sold the goods, paid the freight under protest, both as to the sum being payable and the rate. There wab another case in which pianos were shipped from Hamburg, via London, the bill of lading being stamped "freight prepaid." The company here gave up two pianos, but retained the others until the freight on the three was paid. Judgment was reserved in both cases.