DEMOCRAT CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 273, 16 October 1936, Page 9

DEMOCRAT CASE.

ECHO IN COURT,

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 15,

An echo of the Democrat Party case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when costs were asked by J. B. Donald and A. E. Davy against plaintiff, H. J. Baulf. Costs were not claimed by the other defendants. Security of appeal to the Supreme Court was fixed at £55. Mr Wheaton (for'Donald) asked for costs for the hearing, also for the adjournment from May to August. Mr Butler (for Davy) asked for costs for the action only. Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., fixed costs for Donald at £9 15s for the action and one guinea for the adjournment, and costs for Davy at £9 15s for the action. Court costs lor Donald amounted to 3s. “The costs are considerably less than 1 expected,” said the Magistrate in replying to a request to fix surety for appeal. “The judgment was given in lavour of all the defendants, and I have no notice ot appeal and don’t know how many are being appealed against. The Supreme Court costs would be about £7O, and I fix the surety at that.” On being assured that the appeal would be against only the three defendants, Hislop, Donald, and Davy, tho Magistrate reduced the surety to £oo.