RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3183, 3 May 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

.-1 . . iYkSTKRDAY. (Before A.JC. Strode, Esq,, R.M.) Gillies V. the City Corporation. Claim to recover L4O, valuation for buildings on Corporation ground, the lease of which had expired. Mr Stewart for plaintiff; Mr Smith for defendants. Plaintiff had failed to 'iethovO hre buildings within. the/tfme specified; the buildings had been vam4n at L4O; but no valuation was' Allowed, there being rio incoming teriant.' - Valuation had to be paid by an incoming tenant j the Corporation wanted the land fop street extension purposes, and Mr Stewart submitted that, if they would not lease it. they stood in tho position of an* incoming tenant as regarded the payment of valuation. He also submitted that in the correspondence produced there was an agreement on the part of the Corporation to pay the valuation. -^-Mr Smith contended that Mr Stewart’s interpretation was not the one to be put upon the lease, and that there was no agreement to pay valuation in the correspondence. His Worship nonsuited plaintiff. The action was biomhb in Mr H. Gillies’s name; but the person concerned in the result was Mr Boenicke, hia sub-lessee.