AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S
COURT. : Tuesday, August 20. (Before Justin Ayhner/ Esq., R.M., and his Worship the Mayor.) Civil Cases. Lecomte, v. Johnston. — The Bench, in giving judgment in this case, said it appeared that the fence which defendant had moved was evidently on his own land, which had been surveyed, while that of plaintiff had not, and that it was evident Lecomte had no ground of action, the plaintiff! would therefore be nonsuited with costs, including solicitor's fee. The Court then adjourned. Thursday, August 15. (Before Justin Ayhner, Esq., R.M.) LUNACY. A middle aged man named Philip Spolayne, in the employment of Mr T. S. Baker, French Farm, was arrested by Canstable McGorman, and brought up on the above charge. Evidence was adduced shewing.that the prisoner had been behaving in an excited and extraordinary manner, and was possessed of peculiar mental hallucinations. The medical testimony bore out the evidence as to the question of the man's sanity, and he was accordingly ordered to be sent to the Asylum.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 219, 23 August 1878, Page 2
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168AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 219, 23 August 1878, Page 2
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