Supreme Court DEATH OF JUDGE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29021, 9 October 1959, Page 17

Supreme Court DEATH OF JUDGE

Three Cases Not

Completed

Because of the death of Mr Justice Haggitt on Weunesday three Supreme Court cases on which he had reserved judgment will probably have to be reheard. The cases, one criminal and two civil, were heard by Mr Justic Haggitt shortly before he was taken ill. One of the cases was an appeal against conviction and sentence for an income tax breach; the others were an action for breach of patent, and an interlocutory motion.

A motion for a new trial of an action heard before Mr Justice Haggitt and a jury, in which a man was awarded £14.000 damages, was filed at the Court but not heard. If .a new trial is ordered it can be heard before another Judge, although the usual practice is for rehearings to be taken before the trial Judge. In spite of his severe illness Mr Justice Haggitt insisted on having the files of cases awaiting judgment sent to him when he left Christchurch for treatment in Auckland.

Further Submissions In Mower Case

Further arguments in reply to submissions made on behalf of W. H. Price and Son, Ltd., were presented by Mr R. W. Edgley, senior counsel for Pyramid Machines. Ltd., when the hearing of the mower dispute continued in the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr Justice Adams. It was the one hundred and forty-second day of the hearing.