PUBLICANS’ LIABILITY.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION
[Pick Press Association.! DUNEDIN, Nov. 5. Mr. Widdowsou, S.M., by the conviction of John Morrison, licensee of the European Hotel, charged with selling liquor to a drunken man, upest Mr. Hanlon’s point that a master is not liable for Ins servants’ breaches of the law when the Act provides for servants’ punishment. Mr. Widdowson held that the provisions for punishment were merely a further deterrent to the sale to an intoxicated man, which was borne out by the qualifying clause of the section providing for the punishment of a servant, which specially states that the penalty upon servants is quite irrespective o£ any to which the publican may be liable. Defendant was fined 20s, but the Magistrate decided that :as ;defendant had issued strict iiistrucfyojas in regard to selling to intoxicatecPpersons, not to endorse the iicense. The barman was fined £5.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2652, 6 November 1909, Page 5
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146PUBLICANS’ LIABILITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2652, 6 November 1909, Page 5
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