SUPREME COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

CASES PENDINC CIVIL AND CRIMINAL SESSIONS OPEN NEXT WEEK. DATES FILED. The following cases have been set down for hearing at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, commencing on Tuesday: George Robert Kemp, alleged false pretences; James George Bruce, alleged theft; William Standon, alleged cafnal knowledge; John Hadson, alleg theft and receiving; William James Parkcs, alleged theft from the fierson; Edith Mary Armstrong, oleged manslaughter; John Ward, alleged indecent exposure; Francis Augustus Stempa, alleged theft; Francis Michael O’Keefe, alleged incest; Timothy O’Keefe, alleged incest; Charles Henry Goffin, alleged obscene exposure; John Burke, alleged indecent assaa>; , James Patrick U Brien, alleged indecent assault; Arthur Burdell and Herbert Edward Turner, alleged assault causing 'actual bodily harm ; Ronald Thomas Ferguson, alleged arson; Ralph Antonovick, alleged . receiving stolen goods; Arthur Edward Dodd, alleged receiving stolen goods; Stanley Winwood McKissick Reid, alleged assault with intent to commit rape. CIVIL CASES. The following civil cases have been set down for hearing: Before the judge and a special jury of 12: ohn l Baird b. W. G. Young, £B6B 15s 6d, allegedly due on agreement ; and counter-claim £964 13s 7d damages for breach of agreement. Before, the judge and a common jury of twelve; William Butler and Mary Ellen Butler v. The King, £750 damages for alleged negligence; Ellen Graham v. The King, £2OOO damages for alleged negligence; Henrietta Graham v. The King, £2OOO damages lor alleged negligence; Emma Birss v. The King, £2OOO damages for alleged negligence; Emma Birss v. The King, £IOOO damages for alleged negligence ; Stephen Augustus Harris v. Roy Barber, £lO4l 15s 4d, allegedly due under agreement: counterclaim £lO4l los 4d allegedly duo under agreement; The Scottish Tube Co., Ltd., v. John Burns and Company, Ltd., £1847 Is 7d, for alleged breach of contraot; .William Bannatyne and Company, Ltd. v. Francis Le Manquais Garland and Edward H. Garland, £12,840 9s 5d damages for alleged breach of contract; Sarah Rowberry v. James, Joseph Bourke and Gertrude Bourke, £5Ol damages foi alleged trespass, etc.; Aaron Samuels v. The Mayor and Councillors and Citizens of Wellington. £1133 10s damages frit. alleged . injuries received ; Arthur Edwards and Margaret Edwards v. Harold St. John Walton and Barbara Walton, £SOO damages for ■ alleged slander, etc. , Before the judge and a common jury of four: Arthur Bransby Pownall v. Frank Winifrid Miller, £228 15s Id damages for alleged injuries received.

Before the judge aloife: Norah Firth v. James Meikle, Henry Joseph Kelliher, and John Henry Hills, £331 6s 4d, allegedly due under deed; The King r. Herman Arthur Smith and Duncan McLeod, £220 16s Bd, allegedly due on agreement; V. B. Portman and"Gd: Y Ltd.', v. B. Portman, £278 calls on shares and £555 12s for stock and moneys Allegedly due; counter-claim, £566 12s lOd, moneys allegedly lent ;• Ernest Anderson v. Byrn and Son, £155 damages for alleged negligence; A. J. Wycherley, Ltd., v. William Daniel Bacon and the Bacon Security Plug Co., Ltd, injunction, etc.; counter-claim, revocation of patent; William Henry Weggerv and Victor Weggery y. Leonard Hesketh Greenaway, declaration and injunction,, etc; George Frederick Campbell and The King r. William Frederick Ward and others, £167 10s, severally allegedly due bn surcharge; Peter 'Nicholas Branigan v. Joseph Saha, £242 12s 6d, damages for alleged wrongful conversion; Alexander Campbell and Maurice John Collins v. Daniel Campbell and John Webber, dissolution of partnership; Raphael Leon Frederick Soler and the Public Trustee, declaration, etc.; Robert Burn v. John Hesp Burn, decree as to partnership; counter-claim, moneys allegedly due; John McCale v. E. J. Ham, Charles J. Wood, J. Rennie, W..M. Bolt, and Mrs Preston, £212 5s 4d, moneys allegedly lent; Frederick Egmont Ward v. Joshua Henry Prosser, £655 5s lOd allegedly due on agreement; the United Insurance Company Ltd., and the Batavia Sea and Fire Insurance Company, Ltd., v. Arthur Edward Tasker and Ernest Richard Lane, £324 18s lOd, damages for alleged breach of contract; Petrotite and Challenge Heaters, Ltd., v. Henry Harper Major Bodley, £406 ss, calls allegedly due; counter-claim, rescission of contract; Lawrence Boysen Tullock, Charles Leonard Tullock, and Eunice Arnold v. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., declaration, etc.; Alfred* Andrew Perano v. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., £3OO, allegedly due on contract; counter-claim, £l5O, refund of moneys; Mary Ann Traynor v. Isabella Annie Meehan, possession of mesne profits; the Wellington Hospital Board and Ann Mary Stevenson v. Elizabeth Berryman, decree to set aside assignment ; Sarah Rowberry v. James Joseph Bourke and Gertrude Bourke, £5Ol, damages for alleged loss of profits and injunction; the Public Trustee v. Abraham Levy McDuff, possession and mesne profits; Francis Joseph Soler v. the Public Trustee, accounts, etc. FIXING THE LIST. Hearings of civil cases have been fixed as follows: February 6.—The King y. Smith. February 7.—Samuel v. the City Corporation. February 8. —Firth v. Meikle and Traynor and Meehan. February 10.—Undefended divorce case 6. February 12. —Rowberry v. Bourke. February 13.—Undefended divorce cases. February 14.—Pownall v. Miller. February 15. —Portman and Co, v. B. Portman and Portman and Co. v. F. Portman. February 16.—Weggery v. Greenaway. February 19.—SoJer v. Public Trustee. February 20, 21, and 22. —Baird v. \ r oung. February 23. —Campbell and the King v. Ward and others.