£46,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED
ALLEGED ILLEGAL SEIZURE. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. March 16. Preliminary argument was heard at the Supremo Court thia morning in the case in which the Waimiha Sawmilling Company (in liquidation) is claiming from Thomas George Cook Howe, of Waimiha, £46,000 damages for alleged illegal seizure of property' under lease to defendant.
Defendant claims that the company failed to carry out the terms of the lease under which the property was held from him wherefore he re-entered and seized timber, land, sawmill, tramways, and everything else. His Honour made an order, that the question of the rescinding of tho interlocutory injunction should be dealt with at the hearing of tho case on Monday next, defendant having the right to sell the land in the interim subject to all plaintiff's rights, if wiy. An order was previously made for costs amounting to £225, ■and Dr Bamford applied for an increase of the amount secured for costs owing to the increase in the claim from £12,000 to £46,000. His Honour made ari order for security for a further sum of £175. The case is expected to last some five days.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10540, 17 March 1920, Page 6
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