GENERAL NEWS.
INTERESTING ITEMS. Not Appetising. —“l don’t like the sound of that much!” dubiously remarked counsel in the Blenheim Magistrate’s Court recently upon reading an extract from an English lawreport. The passage which occasioned the comment occurred in the report of an English chse over a deal in dates, the court finding that "the dates were not of merchantable quality as dates because they had been submerged in the Thames In sewage, but they were of considerable value for distillation into vinegar. Complicated Issues. —" This is worse than some company balance sheets," commented His Honour Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, yesterday, (during argument about various items in special damages in a claim involving a collision case. "Never in my experiene have 1 'had such complicated issues in assessing special damages.” At one stage His Honour sugested that the case should be sent to a jury for consideration.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19352, 4 September 1934, Page 8
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151GENERAL NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19352, 4 September 1934, Page 8
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