APPEAL COURT.

West Coast Times, 4 May 1912, Page 4

APPEAL COURT.

WIRELESS PATENT~RICHTS. [PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] WELLINGTON, May 2. The Appeal Court delivered its reserved judgment in the case of Marconi Wireless Company v. King (hoard on April 23). Tho majority of the Court (Justices Williams, Deuuistou, and Edwards), (Justices Chapman and Stout dissenting) held (1) That the petition disclosed a course of action in respect to the present user only, not in respect of threatened user under the contract; (2) Thai the Court on petition of right had a right to try the validity of a patent and also tho question of user ; (3) Tho Court could not give tin relief claimed, but could make a declaratory decree as to the user and right to have compensation assessed under section 31 (2) of the Now Zealand Patents, Designs and Marks Act, 1908. Eacn party to pay its own costs. AUCKLAND MURDER CASE. The Appeal Court delivered its reserved judgment in tho case of Rex v. 11 assail and Campbell , and Rex. V. O'Shaughnessy. Tho court unanimously affirmed the convictions, holding tho evidence admitted no protest was admissablo.

IMPORTANT TIMBER CASE. Judgment in cases of Kauri Timber Company v. Cammissioner of Taxes and Taupe Totara Timber Company v. same. The Court hold the money expended to purchase timber lands was an expenditure of capital and the companies were not entitled to deduct from its profits as assessed for income tax the value of standing timber cut by them. Conditional leave of Appeal to the Privy Council was granted in each case.