SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1925, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

TARANAKI SESSIONS. OPENING ON TUESDAY NEXT. FAIRLY HEAVY CALENDAR. A fairly heavy calendar of criminal and civil business will face Mr. Justice . Alpers when the quarterly Taranaki sessions of the Supreme Court open at lff) W 011 Tuesday next (May Eight persons will stand their trial. Three are accused of breaking, entering and theft; one of procuring abortion; one of indecent assault and indecent acts; one of manslaughter; one of indecent assault; and one on two charges of false pretences. The fifteen cases on the civil list are all set down for hearing before the judge alone. In four cases the Native Trustee and others are cited as plaintiffs, seeking damages of varying ; amounts for alleged breaches of coven- ■ ant. On the divorce list are seven cases. I Four of these are petitions for dissolution of marriage, one a petition for restitution of conjugal rights, one a petition for reduction of maintenance, and one a motion for a decree absolute. Three appeals from the decisions of Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., several originating summonses, and eight motions for discharge from bankruptcy complete the calendar. Details arc as follow: CRIMINAL. For Trial. Clyde Heaton Burgess, alleged procuring abortion. Stanley George Harwood, alleged indecent assault and alleged Indecent acts. John Thomas Martin, alleged manslaughter. David George Stella, alleged indecent ; assault. Peter Dignam, John Connolly, and Michael Fallon, alleged breaking, entering and theft. Alfred Stevens, alleged false pretences (two charges). CIVIL. Before Judge Alone. The Public Trustee v. Robert Johns, partnership accounts. G. W. B. Phillips and another v. Maud Annie Clark, possession of chattels and £lO damages. William Patrick Geary v. John James Geary, partnership accounts. Thomas Frith Trimble v. the Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation Society of N.Z., recission of contract to take shales, etc. Francis Donald Mclntyre v. Taylor’s, Ltd., injunction to restrain infringement, £5OO damages, possession of chattels. The Native Trustee and others v. Daniel Mourie, £2041 damages for alleged breaches of covenants. The Native Trustee and others v. Henry A. V. Jordan, £1564 damage's for alleged breaches of covenants. The Native Ti'ustee and. others v. James Young, £1715 damages for alleged breaches of covenants. The Native Trustee and another v. John Humphries, £1968 damages for alleged breaches of covenants. Ernest John Bishop v. Reginald C. Bishop and another, £250 share in partnership. William John Neilson v. Janies Hall, £225 damages for alleged breach, of agreement. William John Neilson v. James Hall, £3OO damages for alleged breach of agreement. Elvena Hartigan v. the Yorkshire Insurance Company, Ltd., £350 allagedly due under insurance policy. Jane Trimble v. William Ingram Thomason, writ of injunction, £lOO damages, accounts. Kathleen Dora Cuff v. Walter Valentine Patterson, possession of land. DIVORCE. Nora Jane C. Cooper v. Thomas F. Cooper, petition for dissolution of marriage. Thomas Benjamin Jones v. Marion Hastings Jones, petition for dissolution of marriage. Roland Tooke v. Rose Violet Tooke, petition for restitution of conjugal rights. Sadie Anne Crombie v. Arthur Bell Crombie, petition for dissolution of marriage. James Walter Scott v. Ada Scott, petition for dissolution of marriage. Leslie G. Goldsworthy v. Georgina S. A. Goldsworthy, petition for reduction of maintenance. Arthur G. T. G. Wells v. Margaret Lucy Wells, motion for decree absolute. APPEALS. Frank Stuart v. John o‘Donoghue, appeal from decision of Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at Eltham. Percy Lumsden v. Samuel James Martin, appeal from decision of Mr. A. M Mowlem, S.M., at New Plymouth. W. Boon v. E. Loye, appeal from decision of Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at Eitham. ORIGINATING SUMMONSES. In the matter of the estate of John Willis, deceased. In the matter of the estate of William Collingwood, deceased. In the matter of the estate of Alexander Shuttleworth, deceased. William McK. Commons and others v. Alan L. B. Ross and another, summons for removal of caveat. In the matter of Gibson’s, Ltd., petition for leave to extend objects. BANKRUPTCY. Motions for Discharge.—John Bailey Harroip, Henry Zimmerman, Pikirapu Hauora, Archibald John Brown, Curt Albert Bredovv, Charles Edward Haw, George William Hayward, Henry Leonard Slight.