IMPOUNDING LAWS.
To the Editor of the Star.
Sir, — I am one of those who believe that it would add greatly to tbe benefit of the colony if a f^real many of those men who luye had tlio honor of being m:i<k' .1 Justice at tlie Peace would resign tbat honor and let law and justice al<iU(>. Take, for instanco, one or two of the late cases beard at Hawera, before Messrs. Dive and Marcbaut. In tbe c.ise of Tocker v. Ht-ndy. the justices in their wisdom ruled that Mr. Tocker, tbe lauger, was entitled to recover driving fceß for cattle; the full amount for two miles just tbe same as if he had driven them twenty miles or more to the pound. Now, would any man, who is not a J.P., consider for oi.« an ment that the collectire wisd<>in of the colony iv Parliament ashciubU-.l would pass an Act of such a natui-ii that a man could recover money foi labor not done ? The next easel want to lcfer to is G^ne v. T.-ckiT. 1 believe Messrs. Dive and Major were on the bench in this ensf, Thoir ruling m this <*%* \o Uus effect •. Tlwu rt Yho ynnger found bix c;\ltU> six nnlosfioiu the pound, :ind the Buid six cattle belonged to one owner, ho was entitled to only 6s; but if the said six cattle belonged to six different owners, then he was entitled to 365. I will now leave some of your numerous readtrs to pans aa opinion as t.> the above lul'ug of the J Pa. I would not trouble you about the impounding business at all; but I have been told that the Hawera Road Board will be called upon in a 6hort time to defend three or four of those inponndmg cases in a court of law. As a ratepayer I consider, the Road Board ought to bear iv mind the late case Hawke v. Road Board, nod aco that their servants did their duty, and no more. — I am, &c, Ratepayer.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1373, 31 July 1886, Page 2
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