LAW REPORTS. SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 14

LAW REPORTS.

SUPREME COURT.

'' A CARRIER IN DIFFICULTIES. r FINDS v'BACING PATS. Mr Justice Coopor presided at a sitting ot :■ :. tliu.i Silpremo > Court: in- Chambers ' yesterday. ; .lho , ,:iit3t'.-'caso. was .summons to adjudicate 5 Albert" .'Piitere, i carrier, ot. Lowor Hutt, as a .T Mr. Ay. ? ll.j Quick appeared for tho potitioninfi Jisuitor,..Baldwin, .andMCompany, and Mr. ,T. •IT. the debtor. : i- l :-ilTi.,VV:iliord;:asl£ed.:fof.:an'adjournment. ''Ho saul x tt)at.bankruptcy meant ruin to his client, <one of the (hardest workers m the <r. :i «.istnct,; l aiiA v,ho dul-iiot. drink, -Ho .wanted oalj'-pno/raora'.ohanta,--' Tiß debt- amounted. to rQ327»; ; and.,to would make>any., terms possible 'f--tho .order-..0f/.tho: Court; could 'ibo-.postponed. «,Mi!His^Honourviiettlarkedr;:that.-action had-'f11... ... . TM'Jy, been. staved -otfi since: August.->. ~ . . Mr...jWilford::,'l-. haYe.;a/sort of :fellow-feoling -for a man. Ayho gets, into 'trouble. That is why v. 1.-.-am l ,here.-.i.'.;We L offered;,them 'fifty < sovereigns ..at -firstv-and - they.refused: it,-, and- thon .my client tried to got ninety together Mr. (Quick is utterly exhausted. 1 ,Hd is-., soijbadly .jou :that: he is . now ■■ running racohorses/.inth the. .mono?-. ii. iMr, Wilford:,Ho,has ono.horse,/your Honour, . and,- :having, lvona couple of .races during■' tho past few months, ho has been able to keep BQjng..,-,-It;has l -bcen. :his. only .profitablo undertaking during the /time :llr.\ Quick, speaks of.'- • His Honourl: will- adjourn tho i. case until •:.- • next .Tuesday, - and,, if; Mr. Quick: insists on; it, ■ he iflust- have the adjudication. (To Mr- Wil- .«;• v:. ford) 5 -lS- iyour -.final-adjournment,. your final chance t ' Mr. Wiltoril. 'Aly-client's 'final chance, your. Honour. i' PENDING ACTION TOE SUNDER - . The Case-of Gcorgo Lincoln Cjlc, liatr rnanu- ■ . :iacturer; ;versußvStophen>i.>Tetor ■'• Heyns,.' 'hat .- , / inanufaehiror, . was . mentioned 1 boforo -Mi'.*""JUi?- 7 tice Cooper, in Chambers Mr.V/IJetheriok,'. On behalf, of -.the - defendant, 'further ' particulars,before,tho defehco-should bo' filed- ■ • Mt. .Blair, for plaintiff, -opposed the application Ho said tnat tho action ttas ono foi -£001. damages for- slander.. ,'lho exact words cotfiplained of wero sot out in statement, of claim,•_!)«(:■ tho-phra.se 'bv-the'effect,-"follow-' ing" hnKibccji used iuTihe douiinent-because : v:,,it; wasi.osily - to- be expected that tho- witnesses • r ■ might- vary slightly- as to the precise words. " •;Mr..;Petnisrick; objected that:.: 1 the ,-■ statemont ■sr: <■- .of -that 1 ; slanderous ■ words - had ffy:-: :f been»spok6ii4o:6ne .of ithe'plaiiitifPs employees,' ."and -to divers other 'persons." /JL U(3 -names of the latter 1 should be sot out ' Mr Blair pointed out that, as the,statement -: v- : ..of claim iStbod, -evidence could , only be called i S?u *° J" 10 statement to the employee -. . • Thephraio -f'artd, to divers .other,,persona" had . ■,be«H:;inserted- because ■ cotmsel hoped" to get the - names of other porsohs Jator,' in. which case an- amended .Btatemt!jit'!of.'claini---would- bo- fired Bis Hon6i)r;romai;ked..tluit plaiiitifflattempted w; toi prove-substantially the: words 'alleged 'to wi -have beon.-uiedi r Defendant's, application: would - ■ - be better, ifi.the form of interrogatories 'after" -the -.statfitabiit 'of :- defence had .vbecn-'i-'-ffiedv .-, • There :was;,no* reason; for complaint fas-'to "tho ::.i-t: ■ t statemeut-:flf"claim:- '.Plaintiff,, said -his-'-Hononrj alleged loss o{ ..business, because, he said, his credit had been injured • -i. Mr. . cartain-temployees; had left ;«nd t entered-" the ' Borneo ' oi, tho defendant, ./ a :V v : 'HiS-HoDoUr.confanned' that an allegation' Iras' ; -rithat-'the-defendant-had'USed the wordsj''- < 'havs been Colo's books, and,he cannGt possibly last more than three months" No crrder -/n-otil(i:.io.made' on -the summons,-- but, v : ■;. rs j the -statemcnt. of. claim 'had -been embarrassiwf to ethej. defendant, costs .-jvould not b<S allowed ' ' j v— —

but the women' .wereVdrdered'.to.'-'ohter' into surohea of keep, tho peace, and. woro also ordered, to'pay .icons,','{",,'. ""'■■■■-:.[', INDUSTRIAL Judgment was given by Dr. 'M'Arthur.'in the' dispute between the Wellington United Furniture Trndo Industrial ■ Onion ,of Workers-and Hoylond and Col I 'Plaintiff as a penalty for a>breack' of the, furniture ' trade award in that defendant: employed Llewellyn, Deslandes as an apprentice without havinghad; him properly .indentured, as .required,:...by the award Plaintiff also claimed JlO on ; the ground that defendant employed Harry Anslo'wat cabinet work ; and paid hinv-only':.£2 per, week of 46 hours; instead of atHhe.rato of Is.'' 3jd per hour as -provided by tho award. It was contended on-.defendant's behalf that his, ■work was neither furniture-making nor cabinet-, making, but A trado'iof its own, and :mo're. closely allied i to. ; carpohtery■• and joinery rolher than to cabinethiaking."; His Worship's opinion was that he: could hot declaro this a dis-. tmct trade by itself,"any more.than he could, dechro stanmaking-a- distinct trade. The'do-' fondant kerned ■ to • have thought that he was not subject either'-'to the furriituremakers' or

ij^Pnof;itbfvCbtaiaMicing', business ; ;as an.-auo-, i';bo^r/Kan'fcfios^;ff^^shar'';:ia'v.- : Pairii'ad)oi' OT6ith"2w;^ | Mr:', Palmer for what Jtie has done if^J.ttem^ii'cbniicqtion'-..with the'^uplifting /of( stoclt'im.ithe-shape: of poulti^ iS^PK s i's^iV^ a ' found that ,Saturda : y. 'in their mv.O'Stobk, and-'he: established regular 'sales 'oni; ;.that,day. The result was that he established"