SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

--.- PALMERSTON- NORTH, CASES. , • fBT -TEI.EGRAPH—rRESS ASSOCIATION :1 Palnicrston North, March 26. The Supreme Court sittings :wero. continued: to-day before Mr". Justice. Cooper. , -. Ernest tarc'omb, architect, claimed .£265 from Henry .Coles for preparation of plans and supervision of."building. , His' Honour gavo judgment for' plaintiff for £20, without costs. ■ Thomas'Rodgers claimed,£243.from Samuel Greer for 'commission .on, tho salo, of a pro-, portyto R.' E.:'Bannister.', 'Bio.-'case.: was' one 1 in which .olio - land : agent, aaye Particulars of ;the property.-to a<3ient, who afterwards purchased the samo property .through' another land agent, who..also ..had .instructions to'soil. Evidence was .given : by., plain-., tiff, Clau'do Mitchell .(clerk), Samuel Greer, defendant' and owner of tho ' property,'-; and It:. E. Bannister,' purchaser\of. the ■'. same. His .' Honour ' gavo,.'judgment; for. '.defendant' with.costs. '> ..; r.. Thomas' Clarko' claimed from; tho North Island Brcwory Company, of Mahgatainoka,. a: dividend alleged to have been declared List year.' Tho : statement^of "defence denied tho . declaration of'tho dividond, but stated that' it had4)een subject] to a proviso that share-, holders resolvo'to issue to themselves some of' tho shares now. unissued, and .to devote tho wholo dividend to the amount duo iu respect of such shares. ', At tho annual meet- , ing plaintiff and another shareholder refused to tako their dividend except in money, and . tho proviso was never passed." His Honour said that' plaintiff had misled into - believing'-, a dividend had been declared, and had not'known of tho proviso until the state - ment of defence was'put. 1 in.: Ho therefore' allowed plaintiff to take a'nonsuit, and only; allowed costs at-five guineas.