SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1352, 1 February 1912, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

fwcußiTv rou costs sought. WIKMI,i:ss KKiIITS. Al.MtCn.Vl CO. AND TIIF, HimiUllTJ'.MtKKI! PKOl'lMirr.M.'Y. la Hip Kupromo Court ycs/cnlny, before Mr. ,luslici> Chapman, sitting in Choman actron ivns honrd prolimiiinry In tlio enso (if tho Marconi Win-lc.-a Co., Ltd.. a company incoiporntod in llngliiiul, v. the lluddiirt-l'arkcr Co. J'roprietarv, Ltd., of Vicloriii. a claim for alli'Rod lnfriiißoniont of wiivlcss ri|?hli«. 'l Piitrrdny's action wns a siinnnons by ■dcloiuliinl compnny, nsking plaintilTs to sliow' «iuse why action should not liu stayed until security for costs is »ivon, tho ground of tho summons bmng that plnmtilTa nrc resident out of New Ym\. land.

Sir John Fimllny, K.C., np|:eare<l for tho lluddart-l'arker Co., and Air. H. I). JMI, K.C., with him Mr. A. K. llcck, for the Marconi Co.

iMr. J. W. Halinoud, Solicilor-Gonoriil, who was also present, asked that a motion by him, on behalf of tho Crown, for security for costs in respect of a similiiv case should bo adjourned, pending derision on. n preliminary point, ns to whether the Crown was liablo for infringotnont. ' The adjournment asked for was granted. -.-..■

Tho only point in dispxite betwoon lh« other parties was one of amount. After hearing argument, his Honour intimated that ho would take time to'consider his decision.