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FROSTED POTATOES: CLAIM FAILS

9th November 1951, Page 35
9th November 1951
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AN action brought by Scottish Agri. cultural Industries, Ltd., Aberdeen, against Messrs. Alfred Wilkie, Friockheim hauliers, was dismissed -by Sheriff H. F. Ford at Arbroath Sheriff Court. The company claimed damages from the hauliers, alleging that a load of potatoes became frost-damaged in transit in one of their lorries.

The sheriff found that the load had become frosted, but held that ti e haulier had not been negligent. TI e rear half of the load was first covered with a tarpaulin and the whole loa I

had then been covered with anothe This was common practice amon.

hauliers in the Friockheim area although a method which gave greate: protection was often used in Kincar dine and Aberdeenshire.