IMPORTANT CASE.
GENERAL EXPLORATION COMPANY V. PURSER.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
In the Supreme Court to-day a new trial was begun in the General Exploration Company v. Edward Purser, claim £36,000. The case was originally heard at Blenheim, where a verdict, was given for defendant, but a new trial was ordered by the Appeal Court on the ground of misdirection by the judge and the verdict being against the weight of evidence. A change of venue was also obtained on the ground that the action could not be tried fairly at Blenheim, and that it was expedient in the interests of justice to hold the trial somewhere else. Judge Denniston is again hearing the case. Messrs H. D. Bell and Myers appear for the Company, and Mr Brown for the defendant. The former, in opening the case, incidentally alluded to Pielsticker, who figured prominently in the first trial, having disgorged something to the company, but the amount was not stated.
The s.s. Dingadee, one of the steamers stuck up in the straits by the weather, has twelve witnesses on board wanted in the Purser case.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 12 July 1899, Page 5
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