SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

REQUEST FOR A NEW TRIAL

(«V TELF«RiPTT■— PRKSP ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, April 28. The Supreme Court reserved its decision on the motion for a new trial arising out of the case of Eliza Jane Gallagher v. William Walker Bicknell. This was heard at Masterton, occupying three days, nnd the jury awarded £800 damages. The parties belonged to Greytown, and the ground of litigation was an alleged breach of covenant to repair in a lease. The grounds on which defendant is asking for a new trial are that the damages awarded were excessive, and that certain members of the jury had been guilty of misconduct in discussing the evidence ; with witnesses, and that one witness for plaintiff had been guilty of misconduct so as to affect the result of the trial, in that he had informed the foreman and jurymen that the defendant had made profits to the extent of £20.000 out of i the lease from plaintiff to defendant.