COURT OF APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 9

COURT OF APPEAL

LIST OF CASES

His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) presided at yesterday's sitting of the Court of Appeal, and associated with, him were 'J'lieir Honours Mr. Cooper ami 31r. Justice Hosking. The following fixtures were made:—

Tuesday, March 2-I.—H.M. tho'King v. Albert Jas. Adams and Robert Ralph Carr, case reserved ; Scuit v. Sir Robert Stout, case removed. Thursday, March 23. —Registrar-Gen-eral of Land v. Dixon Investment' Co., Ltd., case on appeal. Friday, March 24. —H.M. the King v. William Neary, same v. Elizabeth Russell, same v. Olivor Theresa Havnes and another, thrco Crown cases reserved.

Tlio following eases aro. also on the list_ without special —George Basil C. Harper and another v. Amy Florence Joblin and 1 another; H.M. the King v. Wm. Percy Doeg; Annie Magner v. Ernest. V/. i". Gohns; Boyd v. the Onehunga County Council; University of Now Zealand v. Standard Fire and Marino Insurance Company; Olsen v". Bai fliul others; Deputy Official Assignee in re Bailey v. the Union Bank.

LEAVE TO EMPLOY ASKED FOB. Mr. M. Myers moved for leave to employ Oliver Noel Gillespie in the office of > Messrs. Loughnan and Jacobs, of Palmerston North, where ho (Gillespie) would be a clerk under the supervision of Mr. Loughnan and a managing clerk. Gillespie was a Feilding solicitor, whose misappropriation of funds resulted 1 in his conviction, imprisonment, and removal from the roll, lie had recently been discharged from prison, and Mr. Myers stated that the Law Society did not object to his emplojuient in the office of Messrs. Loughnan and Jacobs. At the present time there was considerable difficulty in obtaining law clerks, and Mr. Jacobs (one of the members of the firm above-mentionodi) had gone on active service. It was desirable that Gillespie should find employment in Palmerston in order that he might be there to assist the Official Assignee in winding up his estate. The Court reserved decision.