MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 16 August 1880, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— ♦- • Mr Jostiee Williams gave judgment on Thursday npon the appeal cue Aiteheson ». The Waitaki Council, d'«» missing the appeal, with costs. The decision is one that relieves eonnty council of what would hsre been a burden much greater than they could bear, - bad the view urged on behalf of the appellant been sustained, for it was do less than that county councils should be required at any cost whatever to prevent > natural watercourses from overflowing K titeir banks in time of flood. Under the beadinß of New Decisions — Winding»up— Judicature Act, 1873— a company took out a /summons in the —Enforcing Compromise— We take the ** following from a legal paper j— A creditor of a winding*up te enforce his security. Negotiations for a compromise having -^ taken place, the summons was ordered to % stand over generally, to be restored to the list on applications. A. compromise was agreed upon and A sanctioned by the judge. The cradilor^ not having fully carried out the terms of the agreement, . the liquidator took put a summons in the winding*up to enforce it.— Hdd; that the creditor by his summons had submitted the determination of his rights to the court in the winding«np ; that, that-sum-mons was still a pending matter; and ~ that the court had jurisdiction to enforce the compromise against the creditor by summons in thewinding«up. The will of the Dowager Lady Rash* leigb, who died in South Devon, Eng- ** land, last year, aged 98, has been the subject of enquiry in the English Probate Court. The old lady, hiving an arertion to lawyers, had disposed of a fortune of about £30,000 upon a sheet of notepaper, which, 'after her death, was founi to have been split in two and stitched together. The question was whether the first piece, by which her nephew (since deceased, and now ap« pearing by bis widow) was appointed w residuary legatee, was written at the time the will was signed and attested, The jury found for the will in its entirety.