SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 136099, 25 April 1908, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

IN CHAMBERS,

Mr Justice Denniston eat in Chambers yesterday and disposed <xf tho matters set down. An application for damages ia tho divorce suit of Teague (Mr Dougall) v. Teague (Mr Baites) was granted, by consent. A charging order in tihe case of Barrett v. Jones was granted on the application of Mr DougaJl. Probates were granted as follows: — Ro Grace Thomas (Mr Izard), re "William Longdin (Mr Williams), re J. H. Parkinson (Mr Weston), re John. Murray (Mr DougaU), re F. Hinds (Mr Biiihop), re J. J. Sinclair (Mr Cuningham), re James Preeco (Mr Bates), ro G. M. Topham (Mr Salter), re M. M. Thomas (Mr Weston), re- David Thomas (]Vir KoDeston), re M. M. Brown (Mr Mills), and re William Rennie (Mr Hunt). Letters of administration were-grant-ed re John. Templeton., deceased (Mr Donnelly). JUDGMENTS. His Honour gave judgment in the case of Wright v. Wicks, a.n appeal from the decision of the Magistrate who held that the heavy traffic by-Jaw of the Heatheote lload Board was unreasonable, and who dismissed an information laid under the by-law. His Honour said that had tihe by-law followed the terms of the clause in the Municipal Corporations Act relating to the licensing of vehicles engaged in heavy traffic there would have boon no need for the present proeeedinge, and the question was whether the paraphrase adopted in the by-law bore the same meaning as the clause in the Act. His Honour held ijhat the by-law as adopted was not void for vagueness or unreasonableness, and he allowed the appeal. "Mr Wright appeared for the appellant, and Mr Cuningham for the respondent. H.is Honour dismissed the appeal in the case of Commissioner of Stamps v. Mutual Building Society, a matter affecting tho payment of stamp duty. Mr Wright appeared for the appellant, end Mr Russell fo-r tho respondent. • In the case of McKensrio and Willis v. Roynl Exchange Compa-ny, an application for damages and en injunction restraining the defendant company from continuing to allow a sign to remain over the entrance to tihie RoyaJ Exchange Buildings, leading to the plain-tiffs' auctioneering rooms, his Honour gave judgment for £10 damages, and the injunction as prayed. Mr Free appeared for the plaintifis, and Mr Stringer for the defendant company.