A BIG CLAIM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12014, 17 March 1920, Page 5

A BIG CLAIM.

Per Press Association Auckland, March 16 Preliminary argument was heard at the Supreme Court this morning in a case in which the Walmiha SawmillingCo. (ih liquidation) is claiming from Thomas George Cook Howe, of Waimiha, £46,000 damages for alleged illegal seizure of property under lease to the de* fendanfc. The 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 Honor made an order that the question of the rescinding of a interlocutory injunction should be dealt with at the hearing of the case on Monday next, defendant having the right to sell the laud in the interim, subject to all plaintiff’s rights, if any. An order was previously made for costs amounting to £220 and Dr. Bamford applied for a increase of the amount secured for costs owing to the increase in the claim from £12,000 to £40,000. His Honor made an order for security for a further sum of £175. The case is expected to last some five days.