SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13174, 26 May 1906, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

Per Vrws AsmmMUmi. Timaiw, May 25. At" the Supreme Courts in a case of failure to complete the purchase of a property, sold at auction for £1700, a vendor claimed. £300 . damages (including • £100 paid as deposit), he. showing that market value did not exceed. £1400, awl he had! been unable to get so much . for it on <an! attempt at re-sale at the' putfeh'aser's riski . There was 0n1y.., pne criminal case, a yputfe; being 1 'sentenced -to four years' 'hard laJbour for joaidiesein't as-, sault >on a school girl. He had not long before seryed six - moortihs for , a similar 1 offence. - A case for nullification of marriage came from Ashbur-ton, ffehe/ wife being the applicant. The ground iof the action was •that she was ■ la • half-blood niece of her husband. The defence . - claimed 'the literal reading f of : -the . table of prohibitions, which mentions nieces, not half -nieces. Jtu|dge/ : Coopar ruled tKat the laws of the Ecclesiastical Court 1 applied, and , thaale prohibited nrar* t ia,ges of half J bloo | d relatious in that degree. 'A decree nisi was granted. A peculiarity of the case was that. both parties delsired the application to fail, bu-t washed to test the^ legality of the marriage. , - ,

Wellington, 25. " When the <dtv.oroe suit of Jef eminh' ' Stcivenson vexsust Nellie > Stetv«ettis l on and Hasrtdngs Russell (co-respotnldrant) was <, called at the Suipreme Court to-day, ootuosel for the resporaden't mad© -axil application to have the* case "heard iri : ; • camera. His Honour, the Ohief Jtusj „ tioe paid be hod always laid down a rule thai where children werexjooicarni ed there ofught iobe no pjufottctetioxi,'^ and granted counsel's request: