COURT OF APPEAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2702, 5 December 1882, Page 3

COURT OF APPEAL.

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WELLINGTON, December 4

Judgment was delivered in the Appeal Court °this morning as follows : —Queen v Vale (Christchurch), conviction quashed; Queen v Gorman, conviction affirmed; N.Z. Loan Agency v Paterson and McLeod (Dunedin), verdict affirmed ; Maitland v Mervin (Dunedin), demurrer allowed; Eeynolds v Napier (Dunedin), demurrer overruled; Cooper v Coleman (Gisborne), appeal allowed with costs. The judgment in Maitland v Mervyn decides that the Government cannot sue for instalments on deferred payments. Their only right is to forfeit. By the decision in Cooper v Coleman, a person cannot be adjudicated a bankrupt on the application of a person who purchased debts for the purpose of adjudicating him a bankrupt. Judgment will bo given in Hurrey v Bonk of New South Wales on Wednesday. Judgment was delivered in the case of Proudfoot v Turnbull (Dunedin). The decree was affirmed as to the Battray street lands, directing a conveyance to Turnbull of one-half. The decree was reversed as to the Musselburgh lands, and the case to be referred back to the Supreme Court to ascertain George Proudfoot’s interest, if any, in the latter. Turnbull to pay Geoi’ge Proudfoot’s costs of the appeal; David Proudfoot to pay Turnbull’s.