RESERVED JUDGMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 5

RESERVED JUDGMENTS.

McCLENXAN \. WOODFIKLD. £75 DAMAGES ALLOWED.

L< >erved judi f , r , ftr . t was given at rJ.r- ---£ (ourt this.morning bv Mr Ju-ii^ »; I wards, in t|,e ease of J fir »u-s L M,'?"S'„ r , l '" rb "" WonclliolJ, I, I " r,s '^ f ■ ' <IK 1 hue Oil O 27,1, , \ a tar owned bv, defendant : by chuiilfciir. Waiter \ ,J .,, r0 tl ' !Vl ' toli ided u ith h'iainnT WlUl »«=",, was proce'dim- ,7. tli' l races at tin- time His Honor had asir-d com f m . i U)ti sides to IVI . , , ' , , r P.UtlO, t<, ~ol Ve t)J(( i!am„ges. hut. this the parties had !„ er. unable to do, and his Honor y,;., to 'ix the amount.

His Honor said lie regretted that , >ad been unable to fix th- amount, and'.-,, tje had been asked he had a-eordin"'i v <«»"' so. The main difficulty he had IWnd m assessing damages was the co-t ~f storing plaintiff's leg (injured in the eolision) to its original condition [t | r d l>P: ' n s,au ' d that this could he .lone, bv an operation, and the ijnestion v/a- uherl jthis should be done at plaititiff's cosi or ", t Hie cost ot the ratepayers. 1!,. had com,.' to the conclusion that the ralet.a ..-eix should not, pay for this. "Taking mo, c ; »^iderati. .n,'' said his [h,;,or, -'the tat is e;iin I; >< 1 to b" indemnified at,d £Jj is. f think, a reasonable aliowan'ce" , .iud<rme,,t was -ntem! aecordii-lv, with costs as to scale. Mr Cooper appeared f,, r phiintiJF, and ->I r J lines for <i> feiida nt. LAXE V. LOVELOCK. Reserved judgment was also given i„ the case ln which .hum's <\ Lane, of |\ ; |- mersron. commission agent, clained Frederick K. 15. Lovelock, of P; ; l, rt< • rst«,i, .North farmer, th- sum of £375. coi .n sion alleoed | 0 he due. The case aros- o.jt • f t he sa of rl. f< ndant's two farms, by way of exchange, to one Huston, and for plauitilf it, was alleoed defendant s,\ authorities author v>ing th" -jol,■ or exchange 'he farms. Defendant admitted auitiorP l ' I" .'II the l.Mid- l.ut for c'a.-h onl; . and ji.. d'-m.-d „, ;v i( ttv - j., of ''xchai g lii. Honor, in i|„. c,>u ; -.e of a lengthy judgment, held that plaint id was entitled ;.j judgment on a 'piantuiu meruit. stating that the plain:iff was entitled to recover a reasonable remuneration for his services, and that before entering into the contract, defendant had teh'gr;.piled to plaintiff suggesting that £l5O a fair sum. In his Honors opinion ihis sum was a very full payment, for p!a:nti!i"» services ill the matter. Judgment was entered aceordinglv, with Costs as to scale. Mr Oram appeared for plaintiff, and M ■ It.ties for tlefeiidaiit.