TREES ON BOUNDARY CUT.
SOLICITOR GOES TO LAW. PUNITIVE ; DAMAGES AWARDED. [BX TELEGRAPH. CORRESPONDENT. ;:', WANQANUI. Monday. An unusual claim was finally determined at the Magistrate's Court to-day. B. 0. Smith, auctioneer, and J. Watt, solicitor, are neighbours on St. John's Hill. Seventeen macrocarpa trees divide the two properties os one Bide, and the defendant Smith maintained that these tree;; kept the sunlight off his property. He therefore had the trees trimmed. •;; The plaintiff claimed £5 damages to the trees, and £50 exemplary damages for wilful trespass. He claimed that the trees provided shelter for his orchard. ■ The magistrate assessed punitive damages at £45. Court costs were allowed. Plaintiff announced that he intended to divide the amount recovered between the Sir Arthur Pearson memorial :fund for the blind, and the Salvation Army.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18495, 4 September 1923, Page 6
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