NEW TRIAL ORDERED.
IN CASE FOR DAMAGES. WELLINGTON, May 3. The Chief Justice to-day ordered a new trial in the ease of Gallagher versus Bicknell, a claim for £BOO special damage, based on alleged breaches of a covenant to repair buildings etc., on a leased farm. The jury awarded £BOO The defendant applied for a new trial, on the ground that the damages awarded were excessive and also that members of the jury were guilty of misconduct in discussing the case with a witness for the plaintiff at a luncneon adjournment during the progress of the case. The wilness, it was alleged, infromed the jurors that the defendant made £20,000 sterling - out of the lease in question. The chief justice said the information was not actually material to the case, but it was of such a nature that it might have affected the jurymen’s findings.
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Grey River Argus, 4 May 1922, Page 5
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