SUPREME COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 114, 19 June 1914, Page 10

SUPREME COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH SESSIONS.

The Chri3tchurch . sittings of the Supreme Court were resumed this morning, his Honour Mr Justice Denniston presiding. ; • v ;

THE COURT OF. APPEAL. His Honour granted an application by Mr Wright, who appeared ; for the' Railway Department, to -have the case of Frances Elizabeth Banks v. the .King removed into the Court of Appeal. This is the case in which Mrs Banks was awarded by the Supreme Court compensation for the loss of her husband who was killed in a railway crossing ac-. cident at Rangiora. Mr Wright had moved for judgment for respondent or judgment'for. a non-suit, and it was this motion that he desired to remove into the, Court of Appeal. Mr Hunt, who, appeared for Mrs Banks,- said he could not. oppose, the application, but-lie asked that, the case should be set down for, hearing, at the. next, sitting. His Honour made an order on these terms. AN APPEAL CASE. Percy Stafford r Brooks, H a warder at the -Lytteltdn Gaol, appealed from an order "by ;Mr H. W. Bishop,''■'. S.M., adjudging him the father of the illegititrate child of Marga'ret The principal" grounds of the "appeal were that, the evidence did not prove, that appellant;'was the father . of; th;e child, and that ithere wasj no; evidence cor-' roborating 'material;'particular, the 'evidenceof the mother of;the'chilci, Mr ( Vlohnston appeared, for Brooks/and Mr A. T> Ponnelly for respondent.* After hearing much . evidence his Honour reserved his decision.