Supreme Court.
(By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, July 7. In the Supreme Court to day judgment on the Te Kooti appeal case was delivered, the appeal being allowed with costs. The effect of the judgment is that To Kooti will either have to find sureties as ordered by Mr Bush, the Resident Magistrate at Opptjki, or go to gaol for six months. An important civil 'suit began in' the Supreme Court to day before the Chief Justice, in which Mies Ann Isabella Hatfield seeks to cause the Public Trustee to reopen the accounts in,the estate of her
father, the late Charles Hatfield. The principal grounds are "’mismanagement of the estate, in rebuilding tho Royal Hotel on a portion of leasehold land while there was available freehold land, and in the preparation of a number of p ] ans for the erection of shops which were not carried out. The alleged mismanagement occurred in 1875, when the late Mr Jonas Woodward was Public Trustee. Mr W. T. L. Travers, with him Mr Brandon, appears for plaintiff. Sir Robert Stout and Mr Stafford are for the defendant. Mr Travers opened tho case at great length, and the Court adjourned until to-morrow.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6262, 8 July 1890, Page 2
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