SUPREME COURT CASES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14139, 19 February 1910, Page 3

SUPREME COURT CASES.

■> RESERVED' JUDGMENTS. Per Press Association. ■ ' TLMARU, Feb. 18. In judgments of 'delivered-to-day. In one caso tho Waimato County’s heavy traffic (traction engine) by-law was upheld. One point was that in regard to tho weight of loads on wheels. In the other-ease,, >' a claim by tho Farmers’ Association against D. Lindsay, -farmer,;for £BOO, under a guarantee .in the interest or his son, a farmer, butcher and store-,' keeper, was disallowed, on tho ground that defendant was not informed a& ho ought to have been by plaintiffs of the son’s financial positiod, which was such that, as the Judge said, guarantee, : instead , of being was. an absolute ■ liability.,- : t h -;i:;; 11'i jv'.i;: A:/f 1 RIGHTS OF THE CROWN. . CHRISTCHURCH, Fob. 18. In tho Supremo Court case in which’ the Board of Governors of Canterbury College claimed fromPublic Works a sum of £3BIB compensation for lands at Graigieburn taken for road and railway purposes in connection with the Midland railway, tlio i point was argued : whether ■ the: ; Vi Crown’s right under a Crown grant to take land for road ami railway purposes bad lapsed. , ... V A SERIOUS CASE. PALMERSTON N., Fell. 18. At the Supreme Court to-day .Thomas!.’,, VV;, Powell was found not guilty on. a charge of supplying an ; illegal instrument. .. V:: - J'l'' jV ? ,,V