JUDGMENT FOR THE OTHER SIDE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 49, 11 June 1879, Page 2

JUDGMENT FOR THE OTHER SIDE.

It is bad enough .when ai man loses a case m court, but the annoyance is considerably augmented if he should be left under the impression for some^fme that the reverse is the case.. This' wa's'M? Philip Protheroe's experience, at the Palmerston Police Cou"t, and certainly judging from tbe altered expression of his countenance upon obtaining tbe in 'o • nation, it was by no means an agreeable sensation. That gentleman had sued his employer, but failing to produce sufficient evidence, a judgment was given for the defendant, — while, with him "tbe wish being father to the thought," he interpreted the result iri his own favor. Those m court vrere somewhat surprised to notice the nnd of approval with which the Magistrate's decision was greeted by Mr. Protheroe, but the enigma was sol»*ed later on m the day when he made application to the Clerk of tbe Court for the amount of claim, and to his disgust learned that the judgment had beon given to tlie other side. The disappointment merged into scepticism, M" Protlieroe refusing to receive the dictum of tbe official until- he had been endorsed by a reference to the reporter's notes, but when "the melancholy fact was made too painfully apparent, he took his departure wearing a countenance on which nngnacity stood out m bold relief.