SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16492, 6 March 1914, Page 10

SUPREME COURT.

IN CHAMBERS At a Chambers sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Denniston, letters of administration in the estate of Owen Stace, deceased, were granted on . the application or Mr Smithson. APPEAL OASES. [Per. Press Assooiatiox.] WELLINGTON, 5. At the Supremo Court to-day Mr Justice Hosking reversed the decision of Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., in the case of M. Demuth and Co., land agents, v. Richard Quinn, hotelkeeper, a claim for £IOO commission on the sale of his hotel, or in the alternative damages for breach of agreonient -to give the plaintiff, the sole right) to sell. The Magistrate gave a verdict' for Demuth and Co. for the amount claimed, but his Honor, upheld the appeal of Quinn against that decision. No costs were allowed. '. The Bengal Iron and Steel Company applied to the Court for an order that the word l! Bengal ” : be deemed a distinctive mark and registrable in respect of pig-iron'manufactured by applicants. It was Qontfndcd, on behalf of 'the Registrar of Trade Marks, that if -the application was _ granted there was a danger that' it might hamper other manufacturers in Bengal selling pig-iron in New Zealand. The Court reserved its decision. THE SOUTHLAND SESSIONS. [Pse Press Association.l INVERCARGILL. March 5.. ■ At.the Supreme Court, Edward-.Bor-land. aged thirty-four, married, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, was - admitted to probation for eighteen months. Duncan M’Dougall, who pleaded not guilty m connection with trie same offences, was sentenced to six' months’ imprisonment.