LEGAL AMENITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 4

LEGAL AMENITIES

A legal pasßage-at-arms occurred In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in an application for the variation of an order for the custody of a child. The mother denied that the father had been refused reasonable access to the child, and she also denied that there was any possibility of her leaving New. Zealand with the child. Mr. Wilford, in crossexamining the mother as to when she had written to a person, produced a, tetter. Mr. A. E. Atkinson : "My learned friend has no right to produce this purloined, stolen letter." Air. Wilford : "Evidence as to credibility, your Worship. 1 Mr. Riddell, S.M., ruled that Mr. Wilford could refer to that .poj'tion of the letter which concerned the date on which witness wrote. Mr. Wilford having examined the.witness as to the letter, Mr. Atkinson held out his band for it. Mr. Wilford did hot any notice, whereupon Mr. Atkinson remarked that the proceedings were ( perfectly scandalous— to crossexamine on a letter and then not allow counsel to peruse the whole document. Mr. Wilford : "You can cross-examine on a letter, a bit of old newspaper, or anything." His Worship ruled that Mr. Wilford must let Mr. Atkinson see the letter produced, and Mr. Wilford handed over, the first sheet. Mr. Atkinson asked if his Worship would direct that he must have the letter. His Worship : "You can sue for it." Mr. Wilford : "You can have it when it has been photographed. " j