SUPREME COURT BUSINESS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1931, Page 7

SUPREME COURT BUSINESS

f ,— > J ; SEVERAL MATTERS ADJOURNED. ® An adjournment till next sessions at > New Plymouth -was yesterday granted : by Mr. Justice Blair in the case of I R. L. and A. L. Roberts against H. L. , Martini and W. T. Ogilvie, a claim for , £2OO, due for work done and : timber supplied. Mr. F. S. Grayling, ' who appeared for the plaintiffs, said that a settlement had been reached and it was just required to place the matter on record. A matter allowed to stand over till next sessions was a claim under the Wages Protection and Contractors’ Liens Act for £398 18s 4d for motor spirit and oil supplied, brought by A. S. Paterson and Co. (Mr. R. H. Quilliam) against the Clifton County Conn- ■ cil and Wilfred L. Larsen. An originating summons under the Family Protection Act. between Ellen Ann Adlam (Mr. F. S. Grayling) and Ellen Willcox and others (Mr. R. H. Quilliam) was adjourned till next sessions. It was announced that a settlement had been reached in the action between Albert Edwin Hovind, Hawera, cheesemaker, and Jacob Coffey, Okaiawa, a

claim for £l5OO general damages and £668 16s 7d special damages arising out of a motor collision at Normanby on March 5, 1930. The case had been set down for hearing before a jury. Mr, P. O’Dea acted for the plaintiff and Mr. L. M. Moss for the defendant. A settlement was announced by Mr. A. K. North acting for Charles Todd and others in their claim against Bernard John Carlyon Joyes (Mr. L. M. Moss) for £544 18s 5d damages for damage to car and salary paid while the driver was incapacitated. Judgment by consent

was given for £4BO 6s 5d (£220 cost of repairs, £4O depreciation, Lil’S salary paid to Cordery and £45 6s 5d incidental expenses regarding temporary management), with costs £6O. In connection with the motion for discharge from bankruptcy by . Wilfred Charles Judd, which was dismissed by his Honoiur on Saturday, Mr. North said that his Stratford partner had in-

f! formed him that the deputy official j assignee had since been asked to stato 1 what particulars he required concerning • Judd’s interest in his father’s estate. Judd had agreed to give these particu- • lars and in .consequence the assignee was I agreeable to the matter being adjourned ’ instead of dismissed., L His Honour said he would adjourn ■ the motion until. next sessions, y