LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 11

LAW REPORTS.

' . SUPREME CGUftt. CORPORATION LEASES CASE. j HEARING MKISHED. Yesterday niorniiig His Hoileftr tho j Chief Justice continued tho hearing of { the Wellington City ComHJiTs motion j that - the award feiitg the ttjntfU-S of certain corpiiratipis: leases (iriatle by j William Moiiat Saiinny, Josejih Prime Maxwell, am! Alexander Jiaointoslt as arbitrators) in Oetobar, ISI3, shquH. be set asidfc, oft tlie , groujil that "William Mouat iJanaay Sni Alexander Macintosh had niisconducted t]ien.is.ftlveii. in that they did iio.t act judicially, awl were biased in fiitfoiir of the lessees." . His Honour thus Chief /Justice (Sir Robert Stout) presided;, Sir. T« P.. Martin, with Wm JVtr.'J. r Oifcy Solicitor, , appeared in slippoffc <sf'thci motion, and'Jir. C= V. Sketrett. K.C., with Mr. E. K- Kitkcaidk, for t]ie lessees. " . . The sections mi rentals involved iu the motion' were :— Section ■• 155 to Custoiaiio'use ■Quay, 40ft. by 66ft, lOift,, £2 ss, per foot; and Section 15?, 45ft..by 66ft. loin, to Custoniijo«.Bo: Quay and'. Brandon $t : r ; eet> $3 ISs. pet foot (Aitken, Wilson &H £&.)> Sections SB, iSFt, frontage to ' Lambton Quay, by a depth off ?Oft., ■■ . £5 10s. pef foatj ami Settlor, IM, 30i't. frontage to Jotastoo Street, by a depth, pf 80ft. (KirkcaWic ftnij , Stains). . Section 62%. 32ft. 6®, frontage tr> Panama St»eet, by a depth of 80ft.. £3 per foot (Hell and KiiigEt). Section fifia, 3D.ft. frontage to . Lambton Quay, hy dpptli iif 80ft.; partoT.6aa, lift.' flirt.' frontage to Panging; Street, and. rloptJi of 36ft. "in..,. $4 l«r fast (Gem'ge , . and Kersley), : Section 64.a, 4:3 ft.. 4i(». frentajso to Lambton Quay, fey a depth of 70ft. fronting Pajiama gtrpefcj a*id Mi, ' on the other, nouftferj, nWrage , depth 70ft., $5 per foof: (,J. B. Harcourt). -. Mr. Skprrett ha:d oil the first i&y of the caae contended tlrat the Oify Go'iiiy. oil could not succeed uiiless it proved conscious bias on the, part- 'of thevaluers. Mr Martin argued $este,tfa& that tho Court of Appijsl had Mi thii.t tliese men wore arbitrates) anfl ivert?,' bound to hear evidence,- »ud that .if. the decisions;arrive* a't by ■t : heni,sho6k(l tile judicial conscience, that Tfas siiifrcient for the cointijl fej .%.qoee.d. ~ Judgment was reserved'," '■ •