Action by the Great Western Railway Company: At the Churston County Court on Monday, before Mr. S. S. Underhay, Deputy-Judge, and a jury, an action was brought by the Great Western Railway Company against Mr. W. A. Hawke, merchant, of Dartmouth, to recover the sum of £14 15s for carriage of goods consigned to him … (detailed discussion) … … in support of the counterclaim, Mr. Hawke stated that during 1880 a large quantity of barley which he had purchased was damaged by wet while being sent in railway-trucks to Newton Abbot to Mr. Pinsent, maltster, of that town, to whom it had been sold, but who refused to receive it. It consequently, had to be sold at a loss. Forty sacks of barley meal were also damaged by wet transit from Staverton to Kingswear, and thence to Newton, in consequence of which an allowance of £3 had to be made to the person to whom the goods were consigned.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901