CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
TOO LEGAL TOR JTJRT. JUDGE ALOXE TO DECIDK. The complication? created by legal points raised by both parties in a claim for da-mage.* heard before a jury at the Supreme Court during the past two days proved to 'be so -wrapped up with the. facts of the case that Mr. .Justice Cooper said it was deemed desirable that the -whole matter should be left to himself. His Honor said the case had been adjourned from yesterday to allow counsel an opportunity to draw up the issues. The result of their conferring together was that they agreed to the j course now taken. The jury was I accordingly discharged. The action was founded on an alleged breach of a lease j containing what purported to be a pur- • chasing clause. The plaintifl". Krnest Edwards, fruiterer. Grey Lynn iMr. i Hall Skelton), claimed from the lessor, Joseph Wilkins. gardener. Mount Albert (Mr. A. K. Skelton), £300 alleged to be J the difference between the purchase price lof £900 for the property. fiNed in the j option to purchase, and the present I value of the property, and al-o for i special damage?. I His Honor said an early date would be fixed for the hearing of argument by counsel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 294, 9 December 1920, Page 5
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