Damages Awarded
HOUSE-WRECKER’S MISTAKE WRONG DWELLING REDUCED [ Per Press Association ) WELLINGTON, May 8. Only when house-breaking operations had been performed on an empty house at 13 Mortimer Terrace last March to the stage where the walls were pulled down and the baths and other fittings taken out, was it discovered that the wrong house was being wrecked. The owner was awarded damages in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The owner of the house to which the damage was done, was William John Beater, merchant of Wellington, who claimed from William Wilson Wood, merchants of Wellington, £283 3s as damages to recompense for loss of profits and costs for partly demolishing plaintiff’s house. Edward Norman, a labourer and an employee of Wilson was added as a defendant. “This is a very extraordinary case. The house happens to be the thirteenth, which is a proverbial unlucky number!’* said the magistrate in giving judgment. There were many points of similarity between the two houses and he did not consider that negligence on the part of Norman had been established.
Judgment would be for plaintiff against both defendants with costs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 7
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185Damages Awarded Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 7
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