SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

QUARTERLY STATISTICS. A return oi civil cases brought before tho Supreme (Vmrt at Chriatclmrrli during th« quarter cncictl lloccinbor 3lst lust gives the following particulars:—Xumbcr of writs o. summon* t<v-:tccl f 11» jmnibDr of actions comnicnced untier ltiilco 461 and 475. 1; number in lvhicli distontinuanrca lias been entered, 1: number of "tried, by common jurj» S; special jurv, 1: judsre, without jury. '''• findinsa fo:—Plaintiff, S; defendant (including' nonsuits), 3; jwdsfinrnts er.tore<l—aJU«r trial. 11; l>y default 1. Total amounts for which judgment* recorded, i'Jl ,011 On <d. Seventeen eitting days were oc/-upiod t>? tho Court -.villi civil cafes. Thirty-seven ordinary writs woro isnied. and four onjrm-c-linsr fumtjioncsea. by common numbered three, by special jurv or.o, and bv thr Jurl?e aJone seven. There -were tr.olvo judgment* entered, ono discontinuance and four i hurgin.s order*. Tlio Court £3t in on day/* to deal with -04 motion?, 20 pnsnnioiisce. nnd 0 petitions, and it mado 'ii? orders. It »at in Ba.nco oil six da vs. nnd in divorco on .-even days. Seventeen petition* in divorco wcro filed, and Ihrcis ar.s'Acie. Four of 4he ttialj wore by common i iry. and 13 bv the. alono. lhero were li> decrcos nisi cind 12 d©crofts whilst two ]»tition* were dismissed. Pio'-kiW jmntcd in the efilateo of 81 and loiters of administration in the csUt«i of 20 "tbers. There was one petition in binary, .mil ono order made. Chattels jw.urities to Ihe number of 441 were restored, and memoranda, of satutfaction. Tho Court cat tlireo diys in bankniptrv. and heird two debtors' petitions. One a;ljudication was fiade and five discharces -ranted. Thi i-t» co!lecte<l totalled X..>-> luttinp days Trcr<» ocrupied by tbe Court in h»arin? criminal cajc«. e.even indictments lx:ins preferred .-t-ivinsl pruwnero. Ten convictions were I'forded, and aeiiittals. l'our i>ri-oncrs were_ rommxltcd •'or sentence under the .liifstices of tho L'eacc Act. and one prisoner was dedared nn habitual criminal. Two prifonc-rs wcro bctitcnced to reforroativo treatment.

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