SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 18 June 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTON NORTH SESSIONS

BY TELEGBAPH- PEESS ABSOLUTION

At the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, W. V. B. Pearce. a farmer at Oroua bridge, proceeded against Edward P. Levien, James Tennant, and Harold Jarvis for £250 damages and an injunction preventing them from allowing the Oroua river to be polluted from flax refuse, which plaintiff alleged polluted the water and made it unfit for cattle to drink, and caused the river to flood his property in flood time, thus spoiling his pasture. The Flaxmillers' Association has taken up defendants' cases, which it was agreed should be taken together. Pearce, under cross-examin-ation, admitted that the refuse was fit for consumption by cattle when green, but unfit and dangerous when rotten. He was still under cross-examination when the Court rose.