SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 267, 4 August 1908, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS,

ADDITIONS TO PARLIAMENT HOUSE. ■DISPUTE OVER A SUB-CONTRACT. ' Tho hearing .of tho cuso of J.*iei.iiiig'-ltos» "v. Michael Fra'|n-was concluded before Mr. Justice' Chapman yesterday, ■ .The suit was brought to recover £100, a deposit, lodged ; by • plaintiff as security for one Martinson for the fulfilment of a-sub-contract for'the construction of additions to Parliament' House and for damages for

the alleged-refusal-of defendant to permit plaintiff to complete the sub-contract with Martinson. Mr. Bell, K,C, : (witji him Mr, L'evvcy), atipeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Skerrett, K.C. (with him' Mr. Voi} Haast) for tho defendant. His .Hpjionr reserved his decision, . REALISATION OF A SECURITY. : CLAIM FOE PORTfON OF.PROCEEBS- - , A caso ljetweon thp tnistpps pf the estate of G. ' H. Thomas "riiid Clp.'i fiaxmillers, -ofShannon,, and Joseph Nathan and Company ivas heard before Mr, . Jiistice Cooper yestprday. ■ : This was a claim for the payment of a surplus -pf nionoys. arising from., tho realisation of a security. Defendants seek to ■retain the '. moneys ill . question against an ajleged liability by them to the Makarua Es-t tatp. Cprn'pany for grcpii -fl»s snpplipd: T|w qiiestipn whether that liability exists , was ■ajso an. issue 1 jn thp. action, . In prdor to 'fettle all questions the Jlakarpa Estate Opin» pany was joined : as a party. ; Mr. Morisqn (instructed by Messrs. Mepk aiul Vhu i(aast) appeared on behalf of the Dr, J. p. Fmdlay,-K.C., with him M)', F, J. B. Sharp, for the Makarua Compaiiyj and Mr.' M, ifyers .for Nathan and Co. V .. ' vjudgnient . was'reserved.' , ' x