APPEAL COURT.
DECISIONS GIVEN. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, July 28. The Court of Appeal this morning gave judgment in Cleav'e against Wairakei, Ltd. The appeal was allowed, and judgment was entered for appellant on the fourth, fifth, and sixth causes of action, with costs according to scale as on a claim for £6OOO, and for respondent for £2057 on the first causes of action, with costs according to scale. The court also gave judgment in Cleave and McDonald case. The appeal was from a decision by Mr Justice Herdman. who refused to allow a new trial in McDonald against Cleave, in which the jury awarded £IOOO damages .for fraudulent misrepresentation, as a result of which plaintiff took shares in Wairakei, Ltd. The court held that the jury had been very fully and fairly directed by Mr Justice Herdman on the point, and was entitled, on the evidence before it, to award the damages it did.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 July 1924, Page 7
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