SUPREME COURT.
(Per Press Association.) INVERCARUILL, this day. At the Supreme Court a decree nisi •was granted in the case of Christopher Shead v. Elizabeth Louisa Shead atid Isaiah William I^e (co-respondent), with costs on tli« lowest scale against the corespondent. . Considerable legal argument was heard in the case of C. H. Poole y. W. Rennie. Rennie is the corporation inspector, and the case was an appeal against the decision of the Magistrate (Mr Cruickshank), who had .convicted appellant of two alleged breaches of the,.' Invercargill bylaws in the iilaiter of the erection of certaiii additions to a factory. The Judge held that, the appellant had .-been, properly convicted, oii a breach of olre' by-law, and quashed the other conviction. He said that the first conviction should be referrecL back to the Magistrate, not with a direction to amend, but to allow him, if he thoughtfit in his absolute discretion and looking at his. Honor's construction of the other sectitin, to mitigate I the fine. The. case was not one for costs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 2
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