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Mr Justice Blair, at Auckland, granted a writ of habeas corpus to release from prison Francis Cairns, of Aria “farmer. Cairns had been committed to six weeks! imprisonment by a magistrate for nonpayment of the costs of an appeal heard in the Supreme Court, which arose out of an action by Cairns against a neighbour whom he charged with being the father of his daughter’s child. That application was dismissed, and also Cairns’s appeal. The neighbour then sued Cairns for costs, and had him committed to gaol. The Judge, in granting a writ for habeas corpus, said it was a matter for substantial costs, and fixed the costs at fifteen guineas against the neighbour. The contention of Cairns’s counsel was that the magistrate had no jurisdiction •in ordering committal for non-payment of costs in tho original proceedings.—Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 10
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