POSSESSION Of HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 196, 17 August 1920, Page 4

POSSESSION Of HOUSE.

I CASE'OF EVEN HARDSHIP. A request for possession of a bouse .occupied by l r . G. McDermott (Mr. A. Moody) was made by Mary Finlay, married woman (Mr. J. S. \V. Dickson), at the Magistrate's Court this morning. ; The plaintiff stated that last July she : sold her house in Xew Lynn owing to ill-health and purchased another in Grey | Lynn, which was occupied by the dej fendant, who said that if the plaintiff | found him rooms he would go. These j bad been found, but the defendant now refused to go owing to his wife's expected | confinement. He offered the plaintiff I the use of two rooms to store furniture, \ and gave a definite promise to leave the j house at the end of September. Plaintiff, however, wanted the use of two living rooms, because she also was expecting confinement. Mr. Moody contended on the part of the defendant that an order should not be made for an immediate possession. He submitted that the defendant was j still prepared to stand by his previous I offer to give up possession by the end jof September. In this case he did not I wish to take advantage of technicalities, j The magistrate (Mr. K. C. Cutten) said it was a case of even hardship, and conj -idered tlir. offer a very fair one, and I defendant Oacordingly agreed to _rjve tin ir<___ October J, i