Arthur Barnett Limited v Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board - [1964] NZLR 305

Fire services — Fire Brigade — Fire Board — Action for damages for loss occasioned by fire — Breach of duty by Fire Board alleged — Need for plaintiff to allege and prove failure to make provision for extinction and suppression of fire in accordance with approved standards — Whether onus on defendant to prove compliance with such standards — Whether evidence of matters not available as cause of action admissible to connect alleged breach of duty with damage — Fire Services Act 1949, s. 32 (1), 46

Practice — Striking out pleadings and proceedings — Circumstances in which jurisdiction to be exercised.