THE APPEAL COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3330, 30 May 1885, Page 3

THE APPEAL COURT.

(By Telegraph.) WEtLiNGTON, May 29. At the Appeal Court to-day, judgment was delivered in the following cases : — Bogina v. Buckley. In this case, which involved the question whether a man can be indicted for resisting the sheriff, Mr Justice Johnston read the judgment of the Court, by which the conviction was affirmed, sentence to be passed at the next criminal sessions in Christchurch. Eegina v. Waring Taylor. Mr Justice Williams delivered the judgment of the Court in these two cases. In the first, as to whethot the sum of £700 obtained from the Bank of Now Zealand on James May's account, and misappropriated, had been entrusted to him by May, the conviction was quashed. In the second case, the Court held that the Bank share register was properly in evidence, and supported the conviction, judgment to be delivered at the next sittiDg of the criminal t Court at Wellington. I National Bank v. Mee and Reid (Timaru). In this case the judgment of the Court made absolute the rule for the new trial of the 11th, 45th, 46th and 47th issues, the plaintiff to have the costs of the rule on the medium jeale ; all other costs to be settled by the Supreme Court after the trial. lie Bloomfield (Gisborne). The Court allowed the appeal, and referred the matter back to the Bankruptcy Court, each party to bear his own costs in tho Court of Appeal, and the other costs to be fixed by the Bankruptcy Court. The Court adjourned till Monday, when judgment in the bast two caseB — Wilson v. Bank of Australia, and Searle v. New Zealand Insurance Company — will probably be delivered.