COURT OF APPEAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17124, 27 October 1917, Page 3

COURT OF APPEAL.

WELLINGTON, October 26. The Court of Appeal gave judgment this morning in the application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the case Good v. Eruce. The Court held that appellant was under liability exceeding ,£SOO, and t-hat that amount, and not the amount to which respondent was beneficially entitled, afforded the true^ test as to whefner appellant was entitled to appeal. Leave was granted accordingly. The full Court delivered judgment in the case Skipper v. dimming, an appeal against the conviction of appellant by the Magistrate at Rotorua under the War Regulations Act for publishing a statement likely to interfere with vecruiting. The Court held that the words used by appellant were a violation of the Regulations, and dismissed the appeal, with <£10 costs, witnesses' expenses and disbursements. The Court also decided t»hat the Supreme Court has no power t ovary or amend a sentence imposed by a Magistrate, and that it could only affirm or quash the conviction.

In tlie appeal case Ann Lockwood v. Auckland Tramways Coy. the Appeal Court ordered judgment to be entered for the company, the question of costs being (reserved for the Supreme Court at Auckland. The Court held that plaintiff had wholly failed to prove negligence, as no act or omission on the part of either of the motorman or defendant company had been -pointed to which could be relied on as having that effect.