WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS GRANTED.
P«r Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 18. Mr Justice Blair to-day granted a writ of habeas corpus torelease from prison Francis Cairns, of Aria, farmer. Cairns had been committed to six weeks’ imprisonment by a Magistrate for non-payment of the costs of an appeal heard in the Supreme Court, which arose out of an action by Cairns against a neighbour whom he charged with being the father of his daughter's child. That application was dismissed, and also Cairns’s appeal. The neighbour then sued Cairns for costs, and had him committed to gaol. The judge, in granting the writ for habeas corpus ,said it was a matter for substantial costs, and fixed the costs at fifteen guineas against the neighbour. The contention of Cairns’s counsel was that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction in ordering committal for nonpayment of costs in the original proceedings.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18640, 18 December 1928, Page 10
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