BOTH PARTIES NON-SUITED

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1930, Page 2

BOTH PARTIES NON-SUITED

“ONE ACCOUNT CANNOT BE TRUE.”

OMATA FARMERS QUARREL. “The evidence regarding the alleged assault was entirely unsatisfactory, the most reprehensible feature being that the young people on cither side supported the stories of their respective seniors. One of the accounts cannot be true.” With that comment Air. R. W. □iate, SAI., _ yesterday non-suited both parties to a civil claim arising out of what he described as “a quarrel between neighbouring farmers.”' No costs were allowed to either party. The judgment was a reserved one on a claim by James Ireland for £25 for an alleged assault and £9 in respect to a plough skeath and fittings, horse-bar and a ” separator said to have been wrongfully detained. There was. a counter claim for £2O, the value of a cow belonging to Ireland, that died, it was' contended, as a result of injuries received while being grazed on Browby's property. The Magistrate said he was satisfied the skeath, fittings and horse-bar were returned to Browby’s employee in the course of the ordinary farming transactions and that the separator was sent /back within the time for which it was lent. Browby had not proved his case and Mr. Tate said he was not convinced, either, that the death of the cow was caused by Browby's negligence. At the hearing Air. R. J. Brokenshire appeared for Browby and Air. R. G. Anderson for Ireland. .