Disputed Liability.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 460, 29 May 1890, Page 3

Disputed Liability.

COMMON, SHELTON & CO.’S VICTORY CONFIBMED. [special to the standard.] Auckland, last night. At the Supreme Ceurt to-day the case of the Colonial Union Company (appellants) v. Common, Shelton and Co. (respondents) was called. This was a case on appeal from the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Gisborne, in which judgment had been given against appellants in respect of a claim for £34 18s, bring the value of certain goods shipped in London for Auckland and Wellington, by the ship Clairmont, to be transhipped for Gisborne, and which were delivered. The Colonial Union Company were the charterers of the Clairmont, and the North British Shipping Company the owners, and the contention on the part of appellants was that tbe owners were the only persons liable. His Honor found that the contract for carriage and delivery of tbe respondent’s goods was between the appellants and the respondents, and therefore the judgment rf tbe Resident Magistrate was right, and this appeal must be dismissed ; without costs, as respondents did not appear.