THE STATUTE OF LIMITATION AND THE PIGS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 254, 26 October 1897, Page 2

THE STATUTE OF LIMITATION AND THE PIGS.

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. At the Magistrate's Court to-d_.y, before Mr H. W. Robinson, S.M., the hearing of arguments in tha Statute of limitation case, Hunt v Bennett, was taken i Mr Pitt appeared for the p aintiff, and Mr C. I Harl.y for tbo defendant, In thia oase ' the defendant was sued for £8 19s 41 and ] lie pleaded the statute of limitations, but 1 the plaintilf held that the transaction had 1 been renewed by the sale to him of three '• piga by defendant within the statutory ' limit. Mr Harley quoted arguments to show thafc the sale of pigs, made on a date ' anterior to the limit, had been an immedi- ' ate sale, ana Mr Pitt argued that there lmd been uo sale till delivery wiihin the date of the statutory limit. His Worship ; said the defence was cot a meritorious ona hut it was tho defendant's legal right to plead the statute of limitations. The onus of proof of the sale of the pigs within the date of the statutory limit was with the p'aintiff, and he had not shown that the sale had not been made outside tho limit. A judgment was given for defendant, costs 2"-/-.