SPECIAL LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 8, 4 October 1907, Page 5

SPECIAL LAW REPORTS.

SUPREME COURT.

No cases were heard in this Court yesterday. The following cases have been set down for hearing in Banco to day Eo lease of Club Hotel, Martinborough, from Harris to Adams and assignment to M'Guiro—Before Mr. Justice Cooper at 10 a.m. Meinertzhagen v. Ikaroa Land ■Board, a summons for a mandamus to compel tlio Hoard to hear an application for approval of certain native cases in the Waimarama Block —Before Mr. Justice Cooper at 10.31) a.m. Jacobseu v. Jacobsen, originating summons—Before His Honour tlio Chief Justice at 10.30 a.m. Saunders v. Campbell,' a motion to roversc decision of the Registrar of Patents—Before Mr. Justice Cooper lit 2 p.m. IN BANCO. Application was made to His Honour Ah-. Justice. Cooper on Wednesday morning by Mr. T. Young, on behalf of Jas. Stafford Adams, of Martinborough, hotelkeeper, the lessee under •[ memorandum of lease given by ■Walter Harris, of Masterton, sliejop farnior, to decide whether the. refusal of tho said "Walter Harris (who was represented by Mr. A. L. Hcrdman) to consent to an assignment -of the lease of the Club Hotel, Martinborough (of which he is the owner) vr°?? A (1 - anis to Thomas Bernard Hugh Mcuuiro, of Martinborough, settler, was arbitrary or unreasonable, and to show cause why such order should not be made thereon as was proper, and why lie-should not be ordered to pay to Adams tho costs of, and incidental to, tho proceedings. It was explained that Harris had refused his consent to tho assignment on the ground that certain covenants in tho lease had not been complied with. Adams, for ■ his part, had offered to* deposit a sufficient sum cf monoy to cover the breaches.'

After briof legal argument, His Honour ordered tho matter to stand over until this morning to enable the parties to conio to a settlement.