RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PICTON, MONDAY, JAN. 22.
(Before John Alien, Esq., R.M.) Macdonnel v. Nolan. Claim for damage for placing stakes in river by which passage was obstructed, preventing {plaintiff getting on his land. Mr J. Conolly for plaintiff, and Mr Mclntyre for defendant.
This was a case in which the parties belonged to Tua Marina, and plaintiff claimed damages for an obstacle placed in a water-course, bj which he was prevented from getting on to some land belonging to him, from which he was in the habit of cutting flax for the supply of Thompson’s flax mill.
Evidence was given by plaintiff and Constable Bemish for complainant. “ ' Mr Mclntyre claimed a nonsuit, on the ground that a question of title had been raised. Mr J. Conolly replied stating that in all Crown Grants rivers were excluded from lands, lands being described as being bounded by certain waters.
The Court ruled that the question of title having been raised, a nonsuit must be granted with £2 2s costs against plaintiff.
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Marlborough Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 1369, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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