LONDON SUMMARY.

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1911, Page 8

LONDON SUMMARY.

A GHOST STORY TOLD IN COURT LONDON, Oct. 27.

An amazing ghost story was told at. the -Wandsworth County Court, when Thomas Henry Wreusted sued William Atkinson for £lO 13s 4d rent due i;i inspect of a house off Cathles Road, Haitian). Mr. Hanne, solicitor for the plaintiff in which the former mhcl it was "impossible to live in this bouse; it is being haunted by an old ,gi eyheaded man. Some noises we line heard give us no rest. We have tried ail tiio rooms to sleep in, but they are all alike. One of my daughters had..her face slapped. One night some brass nails were flung across the room. 1 here were terrible bangs at the head of the bed and pattering up and down .tans. Our dog whines, ana it is very restless, and last week he was let loose; the back door was opened, and the dog admitted to the house, by whom we do not know. Our experiences have been something dreadful, '.the shadows c\ a man and a woman have been seen by more than one person." The judge said that a plea of ghosts could not be a successful reason for not paying the rent, and gave a verdict against the defendant. OSBORNE CASE SETTLED.

A trade union dispute which has cost upwards of £12,000 in law costs u-.cl nas involved five years' constant litigation has just ended. This was the famous Osborne case against the iui.ilgamated Society of Railway Servants — the series of actions brought by Mr. Osborne, then a foreman porter on the Gloat Eastern Railway, against his union. Mv. Osborne, who objected to levies which he believed to be dlegal, carried his case from tlu liiyh Cou.'ts to the Court of Appeal, and finally to the House of Lords, where ho got judgment in his favour. The sequel was heard in Mr. Justice Warrington's Court, when Mr. Clausen, K.C.j i'sked leave to mention the case of Osborne against the Amalgamated Society ci Railway Servants. This was the fist action of the series in which Mr. Osborne applied for an injunction :- lestiain the union from expelling h'ni from membership. Counsel added Mat he was instructed that arrange me its had been made to put an end to all litigation, and by consent he asked for uii order staying all further procee li.igs. Mr. Justico Warrington accordingly made the order, and the action v. as settled to Mr. Osborne's satisfac.ion.