APPEAL COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7958, 15 April 1904, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

Cases Heard At Wellington

Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Appeal Court gave judgment for defendant in Too Tipuni v.Mere Tepnai. Tho parties had lived together though not legally married., according to English law, and the Court held the plaintiff could not recover for work done on tho woman's land or for money expended on it. The costs on the middle scale were allowed.

In the case of Hills v. Stanford and another, a Taranaki case, the majority of the Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, and Judges Williams, Denniston, Cooper, and Chapman, %vere of opinion gat the pl a i n t note in the action in the Magistrate's Court sufficiently complied with the provisions of section 68 of the Magistrate's Court Act, 1893, which requires it to state the substance of an action, if it sets out whether the claim is for money, or land, or goods, and if for money what amount is claimed; and that, it, 18 not necessary, that it should set out the cjise of action in a legal sense of that, expression. Mr Justice Edwards dißsetucr! from this vi.-w. In accordance ! wnh i tie decision of the majority of the ' Court the motion for prohibition was dismissed Wl th, costs on the lowest scale.