£500 DAMAGES

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21038, 14 February 1940, Page 6

£SOO DAMAGES

CONVERSION OF TIMBER SETTLEMENT IN CIVIL CASE Set down for hearing before Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, to-day, the case in which Harry Delamere Dansey. retired civil engineer, of Rotorua (Mr J. F. Keane, Rotorua), sought £B4O damages from Samuel Woodward, sawmiller, of Taupo (Mr M. H. Hampson, Rotorua) was settled for £SOO. Judgment in accordance with the terms of the settlement was entered by His Honour. Plaintiff was a tenant, with other owners, of 170 acres of land known as Pahautea D block, at Taupo, and sued in a representative capacity on behalf of all the owners of the block. The land contained about 50 acres of milling timber valued at £B4O. When cutting trees on the adjacent land in 1939 defendant encroached upon the milling timber of Pahautea D block and converted to his own use timber from that land. It was stated that the conversion had caused the remaining miliiable timber on the block to have no commercial value.

Plaintiff asked for an injunction restraining defendant and his agents from trespassing further on the block, and for judgment for £B4O.