SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 28 March 1895, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

YESTERDAY,

CIVIL SITTINGS*

(Bafore His Honor Mr Justice Conollv.) Ernest Arthur Frost v.. Waitemata County Council.—Claim to. recover £200 as damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained through defendant's negligence. —Mr F.'E: Baume for the plaintiff, and Mr Hugh ■.. Campbell for the defence.—After threoquartera of an hour retirement, the jury returned into Court, and Mr R. Duder, tho foreman, announced that tho jury found that the injury to plaintiff was nob caused through the negligence of the defendants.—Mr Campbell then asked that judgment be entered up for defendants.— His Honor then gave judgment for dofendants; with costs on the lowest ecale, an extra day being.allowed/ « ~i.:'"'-- ' v Alleged Trespass.—New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Bank of IMew Zealand, and Bank of New Zealand Estates Company v. Edward Douglas and others, for £500 damages, for alleged trespass and injunction ab Matamata. —Mr Button appeared for plaintiffs; defendant appeared in person.—-Mr Button stated thab defendant, who represented a Maori; wife, had filed a defence at the last minute, but it amounted to nothing. However, the matter bad been before a committee of the House of Representatives two or three times and he did not wish to chub defendant's mouth. —His Honor remarked. that the defende filed put defendant in a worse position than before. He admitted the' whole thing.— The defendant asked if he would be allowed to • defend himself. — His Honor said thab defendant, was served with a -writ in December last, and if he had read that writ he would have learned that he had 14 days to give a defence. The* defence now. filed should not have been sallowed by the officers.of the C.ourb'.TrMr^Button then produced and put in a title of the land under tho Land Transfer Acfe, also-, documents showing the incorporation of the Land Company.— Mr Kallendar, manager of the Matamata Station, was then called, and deposed as to the alleged trespass ■on ditlerenb occasions with his family, a bullock waggon, and dray.—Defendant interposed while Mr Kalloridar was giving evidence, and naid if he waa nob to bo allowed to defend himaeif ho had better leave the Court.—liis Honor said ib would be quita as well, and defendant withdrew. —Messrs Scotb and Aitken, who worked on tha Matamata Station, also gave evidence as to tho trespass.—His Honor said no one had seen the defendants drive off the cattle. He could nob give the heavy damages asked for by Mr Button. His Honor then gave £5 damages for fencing pulled down, and granted a 1 perpetual injunction. . ;", !> Allegec Slakdeb.—Oharleß Robs Choi-

mondeleySmith ;y.; Alfred Thomaa Patter-: son. • • Claim £200/ for-alleged 'slancfbr.'— Mr Beale appeared for plaintiff.—His Honor gave' judgment this morning, for plaintiff for 408 damages, with costs on the; lowest scale.—No statement of defence bad been filed, * > " ~ . ■.;-'-;- -