APPEAL CASE
INTERESTING TO PROPERTY HOLDERS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 8. The Court of Appeal was to-day considering the appeal of Boltdn v. Knight, the case emanates from Wellington, but is of general interest. The appeal is against the judgment of Mr Justice Salmond, who decided that an occupier of land is liable for a nuisance affecting his neighbour, notwithstanding that the cause of the nuisance was created by the predecessor in the title. In this case the nuisance complained of was the collapse of a retaining wall, against which accumulations of artificial earth had been banked for the purpose of levelling the ground of the upper occupier. The retaining wall having collapsed, the artificial earth came through, and did damage on the land of the lower occupier. The hearing was unfinished.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 4
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133APPEAL CASE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 4
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