THE APPEAL COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 12874, 25 July 1906, Page 5

THE APPEAL COURT.

WELLINGTON, July 25. The Appeal Court gave judgment* to-day in the Auckland.case Kenneaiy and Kawana Karaka. The native had been injured at Tepuke by a shot from a pea rifle fired by Kennealy’e son, and the jury awarded £SOO damages. .Mr Justice Edwards had refused a nonsuit, and against his decision an appeal was made. The Chief Justice, Mr Justice Cooper, and Mr Justice Chapman delivered separate judgments, the result of '' hich was a concurrence that the appeal should be dismissed, with costs on the middle scale. The Court also gave judgment in the case of Lowlishaw and others versus the Christchurch ‘ Pres.- ’ Newspaper Company and another. The claim by plaintiffs was that ordinary .shareholders were entitled to a dividend of 8 per cent, out of the surplus profits (after the preference shareholders had been paid their dividend), instead of the profits going into the business. Separate judgments were delivered by the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Edwards. Mr Justice Chapman remj a joint judgment of himfdf and Mr Justice Coop r. The result was that the plaintiffs’ case f is clismiscd, the question of costs being reserved for future argument.