SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

THE CIVIL SITTINGS. His Honour the Chief Justice sat in Chambers this morning to fir the civil list for the sessions to be opened on Monday next, 14th August. The following fixtures were made :—: — BEFORE SPECIAL JURIES OP TWELVE. Welch v. Crawford; claim for specific performance; 15th August. James .Williams, junior, v. Wellington 1 Electric Lighting Company j claim, £4000 for injuries ; 31st August. Common and Co. v. Levin and Co. ; claim for £1500 compensation ; no fixture. Kaupokonui 'Co-operative Dairy Company v. Henry Trengrousev and Co. ; claim, £3391 lls Ud; 25rd August, BEFORE COMMON JURIES OF • TWELVE. Martin Kennedy v. Henry Ranish; claim £751 and interest, or damages ; 16th August. Macky, Steen and Caldwell v. The Cafe Monico, Ltd. ; claim £656 6s Bd, for alleged breach of agreement ; 17th August. Thomas M. Smith v. Robert Wilson and another; claim £1000, for alleged libel ; 18th August. Benjamin Speight v. George Henry Gooda.ll ; claim £750 and £50 deficiency ; 18th August. Job H. Meyer v. -Arnold Berg ; claim £554 8s 3d, for work done ; no fixture. - BEFORE A JUDGE ALONE. D. Mason and Sons, Ltd., v. Arete Mahupuku and others ; claim £490 2s lOd on promissory notes ; 14th August. Rebecca Love v. David Everest ; claim I £200, for alleged wrongful removal ; 14th i Angust. Wellington Loan Co., Ltd., v. Francis Loudon ; claim £164 17s 3d, accounts ; 15th August. William George Crawford v. Annie R. Crawford ; claim for specific performance ; 21st August. John Charles Jones v. Frederick Hilton ; claim £42 5s Bd, alleged dishonoured cheque; 21st August. Rangiwahia Te Puni and others v. John L. Morrison ; claim £200 and injunction ; 22nd August. Robert Rollison v. Maria Beadley; claim £215 or accounts ; 24th August. James C. W. Stevens and others v. Carterton Borough Council ; injunction ; 25th Angust. Dwan Brothers v. Patrick Moloney; case removed into Supreme Court ; 28th August. Ann Fastier v. Government Railways Superannuation Fund Board; "special case" stated ; claim £255 0s sd ; Ist September. Alexander Sample v. Cyril William Tanner; claim £200 and to register transfer; stop over. There are eight cases for possession of land brought by the Crow n against Heath and others, Barber, Tonks, the Karori Borough Council, Carter, Crawford and others, James Gibnour, and Crawford and another respectively. Hearing of these cases will be started on 30th August. IN DIVORCE. The sittings m divorce will be started on sth September, probably before Mr. Justice Cooper. The case of Gibbs v. Gibbs {husband's petition) will be heard before a. jury. The others cases down for, hearing are Munro v. Munro, I'earce v. Pearce, Croft v. Croft, Boyd v. Boyd, 1 Hutchison v. Hutchison, Wiggins v. Wiggins, Burt v. B.urt, Wilda v. Wilds, Young v. Young, Hinshelwood v. Hinshelwood, and Wakeford v. Wakeford. In Chambers this morning application was madt to hi» Honour the Chief Justice on behalf of George H. Munt, '.James Hunt, and Thomas Munt, sons of the i late Thorna* Munt, carrier, for an allowance under the Testators FamilyMaintenance Act. Mr. Weston, counsel for applicants, said that deceased (for 33 yc-urs) until 1902 resided in New Zealand, whim h& left for England. There he died, leaving his property away from his sons. His niece, Sarah "Moss, and his nephew, Thomas Charlei Burgess, receive the whole of the propeity according to deceased's will. There ia a total of £6200 involved, consisting of real and personal property. All deceased's sons have wives ana children dependent upon them. Mr. D. N. Findlay, who appeared for the executor of the will, contended that provision had been made for two of the aons by the allotment to- them' of shares in the carrying company during the lifetime' of their father. His Honour reserved his decision. , The directors of the Wcstport Coal Company have declared an interim dividend of 3s 6d per share for the half year ended June 30th (not 2s 6d as previous reported),.