SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

MASTERTON CASES. .By Velccrapli—Prcu Asso-iatlon.l Masterton, March 24. A case was hoard in the Supreme Court yesterday in which Francis Hood claimed to recover from I{. Hob the possession of a farm v;hich he alleged had been sold to the defendant without authority diirin* the plaintiff's absence in England. His Honour adjourned the further hearing of the, case to Wellington. ,T",° cas3 on t,le lisf wns ono in which a farm labourer named Kvan Jones claimed from John Thomas Bieknell, farmer, of Feathcrston, the sum of .C5Ol, balance, of wages alleged to be duo over a period of nineteen years. Plaintiff aliened that ho went to work for defendant in 181)2 at a urn go of .£lO per year, and found the total sum that ho had drawn in the period in cash and goods was .£i>oß. The defendant alleged that (ho agreement was that the plaintiff was to receive 10s. per week. This was paid in cash and kind for eight years, when plaintiff took to drink, and thn agreement v:as varied so that he should receive 10s. per fortnight with food, clothes, and tobacco. After hearing the evidence, his Honour said he was not satisfied with I lie case, and \vns not disposed in adjudicate. He thonsht the <:jss rwi? for <i jury or for ivrhitr.itipn bj pettlors. He would uounlaiatif, but without costs. ,