SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 32, 7 February 1921, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

CIVIL CASES.

His Honour the Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) heard a tenement case thjs morning, in -which • the plaintiffs tvere Madge and Gwladys Bayley, of Wellington, and.'the defendant,- Frederick Shof-' field Peters, of Murphy-street, Wellington. The facts as set out were that the plaintiffs became the owner of the house and premises in Murphy-street, tenanted by the defendant at £5 10s a week. One month's notice had been given determining the tenancy on 20th December, 1920. Application was therefore made for possession. Mr. H P. O'Leary appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr: A. B. Sievwright for the defendant. Judgment by consent was given for possession in one month from to-day,.with costs according to scale. ' Judgment, with consent,' was entered by Kin Honour in the case Myra Campbell v. Elizabeth Green, a,claim for damages for breach of contract. The judgment was for ■£100, with 10 guineas costs and disbursements. Mr. T. Young appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Tripe for defendant.

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AUCKLAND, This Day.

At the Supreme Court criminal ses: sion, Mr. Justice Stringer said the calender was fairly extensive. It involved two grave cases —a son was charged with murdering his mother, and <>. father was charged with murdering his son. In the first case, he said, it would be best for the jury to return a true bill and allow the facts to come out in Court. The case of Needham, who, it is alleged, killed his son at Maungatu-i loto, was even more distressing. The/ jury would have no difficulty in finding a true bill In addition to the indictment of murder there ought also to be an alternative one for manslaughter. His Honour suggested that a true bill in the graver charges should be brought.