SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 650, 22 August 1891, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL BUSINESS. The sheep-worrying case, in which Mr J. T. Steele was plaintiff and Messrs Ramlose and Christensen defendants, was again introduced at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, when a great deal of legal ammunition was fired off concerning the costs in the action. Mr Sainsbury strongly contended that the case ought not to have been brought in the Supreme Court, and that a jury was not required in the case. Mr Cooper pointed out that they would have shut themselves out from the right of recovering what the decision of the jury showed they were entitled to claim on the full amount. His Honor said that the case was one in which a jury was required, and had he known the conflicting nature of the evidence beforehand he would have refused to take the case without a jury, even had the parties been agreeable to dispense with it. Oosts on the lowest scale were allowed. The case of Bank of New South Wales v. P. Barker, claim £732 9s 10J, in connection with a Native Land Court order, was decided in favor of the Bank, with oosts on the highest scale. Mr Cooper represented the Bank and Mr DeLautour the defendant. This case concluded the ordinary business of this session of the Court. In Chambers yesterday morning judgment was entered up for plaintiffs, in Rees and Day v. Barker, for the amount earned by by Ward and Cresswell between September 13, 1886, and September 2,1887- Leave was reserved for plaintiffs to move to increase the judgment by the Makauri costs or to apply for a new trial. The question of costs was reserved.