THE SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 1 November 1916, Page 11

THE SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SESSIONS BUSINESS. LONG LIST OF CASES. The civ;] sessions of the Supreme Court will open on Monday morning next. A lengthy list of cases is set down for hearing, and His Honor Mr. Justice Hosking will preside. His Honor will sit in Chamber? on Friday to decide on the order of the cases, of which the following are the particulars : — Before e Judge and a special jury of twelve :— Harry Boardman (Mr. Tuck) v. the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd. (Mr. Richmond!, claim for £1500 damages and £25 expenses for injuries. Before a Judge and 3 jury of 12 : —

Parenga Gumfields, Ltd. (Mr. Aldertcn), v. Alfred E. Harding (Mr. Nicholson), for £XOO damages tor alleged slander. Parenga Gumfields, Ltd. (Mr. Alderton), v. Robert Edward Hornblow (Mr. Gribisin), £1000 damages for alleged libel. Florence Johnson (Mr. A. E. Skelton) v. Wilsons Portland Cement Co., Ltd. (Mr. McGregor), £2000 compensation for death of husband. Dominion Mortgage and Finance Company, Limited (Mr. Richmond), v. Arthur Cleave and others (Dr. Bamford and Messrs. Reid and Cracknell), £3200 and £5200 alleged damages and decree to set aside agreement. Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. (Dr. Bamford) v. James Webster (Mr. Haddow), £4315 damages for alleged breach, of contract.

Ellen Jane Webb (Mr. Reid) v. Queensland Insurance Company, Ltd. (Mr. McVeagh), £365. alleged "to be due under policy and £200 damages. Before a Judge and a jury of four:

Evelyn Winks (Mr. Gould) v. Henry James Skinner and others (Mr. Bell), £400. alleged to be due for services rendered.

John Frederick Parker (Dr. Bamford) v. Joseph Wachner (Mr. Reed). £11 and £40 damages for alleged misrepresentation.

Before a Judge alone:

Alice Graham {Mr. Richmond) v. Robert Coxhead (Mr. Ostler), decree for specific performance. Alexander Campbell {Mr. Earl) v. Angus McKinnon and others (Mr. Hes- j keth), possession and mesne profits. Arthur Groves (Mr. Hall Skelton) v. John ' v tven Gardner and Peter Robertson Gardner (Dr. Bamfcrd), decree for declaration setting aside conveyance. Angus John McKay (Mr. Hall Skelton) v. Donald Murdoch Mac Lean (Mr. McGregor), specific performance of agreement and £50 for alleged damages. Charles Crisp (Dr. Bamford) v. George Snowsill (Mr. Zim&n), £10 as alleged damages and injunction. Ernest Elliot Clarke (Mr. Richmond) v. Eliza Kate Jephson (Mr. Neumegen), srjectfic performance of agreement. Edward Sanderson (Mr. Denniston) v. John Henry Pearson (Mr. Blomfield), £364 lis lOd, money alleged to be due. Thomas James Fleming (Mr. Gould) ▼. Hubert Houghton Hogg (Mr. Neumegen), £500, moneys alleged to be due. Waiiato Dairv Finance Company. Ltd. (Mr. Reed) v. John Hill and Robert Norman Melville, £191 Is 9d, alleged damages and interest. John Majoribanks Steele and Harriet Steele (Mr. Stilling) v. Hans Peter Rasmussen (Mr. Gould), decree to transfer 250 shires; also, dividends and profits. Auckland Electric Tramwavs Company (Mr. Bell) v. Lipton. Ltd. (Mr. Buddie), £80 10s, alleged to be due under agreement.

Edward Joseph Lynch (Mr. Napier) v. Tyrel Dodds and Albert William Dodda (Mr. Hall Skelton), decree declaring transaction void; cancellation of memorandum of lease.

Edward Anderson and another (Mr. McVeagh) v. James Webster, injunction and £100 damages for alleged damage to land. Robert P. Gibbons, Ltd. (Mr. Miller) v. Toko Watene, £224 14s Id, alleged to be due for timber supplied and lien. Alfred Andrews and others (Sir. UcVeajrh) v. Thomas Holder and others, specific performance of agreement and £500 special damages for alleged damage to land.

__ Wingate and Company," Ltd. (Mr. McGregor) v. Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Ltd. (Mr. Richmond), £101 5s damages for alleged negligence. Kenneth Roy Squirrell (Mr. Gribbin) v. John Black (Mr. Gregory), specific performance and £100 damages for alleged negligence. Mackay Woodruff (Mr. Reed) v. James Cochrane Cleland (Mr. Flcmin?), specific performance of contract: or £470 damages for alleged breach of contract.

Catherine Cathcart (Mr. McGregor) v. John Edmund Geraghty and Lawrence Geraghty, £75, money alleged to be due. Benjamin Charles Cbflwell and others (Mr. Fitzberbert) v. J. D. Webster and H. C. Tonks (Mr. Jackson), £332 16s 4d, balance of money alleged to be due; £3 10s advertising expenses. Counter-claim, £501 damages for alleged breach of duty. Jemima Algie and James Dearness Chalmers (Mr. Mowlem) v. Mary Ann Victoria Dearness (Mr. Holloway), decree for rosfession of land and houre and ownership. George McAinch (Mr. Johnston) v. John William Proudfoot. £220 and account of moneys alleged to be due. Rebecca Kelly (Mr. Crackneil) v. Frederick Stafford Haslett (Mr. Jackson), £284. interest alleged to be due on mortgage. Counter-claim, decree declaring mortgage null and void. Tauranga Sawmilling Company. Ltd. fDr. Bamford) v. Henry W. Wilding (Mr. Crackneil), £501, money allegedly received on behalf of plaintiff. Arthur Mt»lziner Mvers (Mr. McYeasrh) v. Bank of New South Wales (Mr. Reed), £2000. refund of monevs deposited. James Howell and William Howell {Mr. Oitios) v. Alexander Jc\n Hatfield, £708 Ss 6d damages for alleged breach of agreement.

Kate Ann Finlavson (Mr. McGregor) v. Robert Hamilton Gray (Mr. A, E. Skelton). £270 damages for alleged failing to perform covenants of lease. Archibald Lyon Denniston (Mr. Earl) v. Robert H. Wood and John J. Bret*., £250 damages for alleged libel. Forrest Brown (Mr. Black) v. John Charles Speeding (Mr. McGregor), £198, money alleged to be due, and an account of profits.

SENTENCES AT OHEISTCHUECH. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUBCH. Tuesday. In the Supreme Court to-day the following prisoners were sentenced :—Elsie Heann, opening postal packe's, to come up for sentence when called on ; Walter William Gabbitt, attempted rape, two years' imprisonment; Clement Borrows, theft of motor-cycle, to come up for sentence when called on, provider he enlists; Alexander Charles Mitchell, theft from postal packets, committed to the charge of the Salvation Army Prison Bngaue for 18 months James Alfred Smith, found girilty of uttering a valueless cheque, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.