SUPREME COURT CASES.
fai tei-equat-h — press association.] INVERCARGTLL, This Day. William Kc'rwan, with a long list of previous convictions, was yesterday adjudged an habitual drunkard under this Act of 1906, ;md committed to tho Salvation Army inebriate institution in the Ilauraki Uulf. Henry Beckett, of Waimanu, farmer, claimed from Charles and Edward Marshall £200 damages on the ground that by reason of tho dredging operations of defendant.? foreign water had been diverted on to plaintiff's land. Plaintiff also nought an injunction. Defendants counter-claimed for £25 damages, alleging that plaintiff had cut a ditch on defendants' allotment and tapped water required for dredging. Judgment was given for defendants on claim and coun-ter-claim, -with Is damages on the latter, with costs on the lowest scale against the plaintiff on the claim, and no costs on tliG counter-claim.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 8
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