SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3803, 3 May 1875, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS. Monday, May 3. (Before * Honorgg,.*. With his family, in the S SW’ Glasgow to Otago, to tht sum ISS damages from Henry Stevens, caSSn rfttS said vessel, in consequence r j? having assaulted pitiff on seas, and put him in irons in K lg , b hold, whereby he sSed sh ?, B injury, Defendant denied all set forth in the declaration, pleaded that the plaintiff had the discipline of the vessel by demanding iclease of a passenger; by also demanding more water than he was entitled to; by holl. mg meetings, and using indecorous language towards defendant sojthat it became nlcessarj for the proper conduct and discipline of the no'mow 1 ' Pontiff should be confined, though PkS V sn u“ C ® wa f. us ? d than was necessary !i‘Sl s ? hls neb *' ka Mr Haggitt, with him Mr G B Barton John Barrowman. nlaintiff amined at great length th*> w*f ex .* deuce being as follows • -.TtL * 3orfc °t bls evi " hundred passengers in the Auckland °' er Gover nm c n U.li gB Jt, own passage and his family’s™ m P fe daughters, a son, and a brother. TheTilUft Ssra* A r Md ”p *> sXaSi Miller woe V - - at dajr a passenger named with them nn n V Oll . 8 ’ an< ? wifcneßß Baw asked if £IU J 2 etp n <1 ant hailed witness and sent d for h b Wir fUßed g ? to the when ■^ eat f 9f* Witness replied “ Yes.” and wan ? vc his reason when defendant kons Wb "tf? and Btewar d to put MmS Sm by the thnn* Was ( ? on< t .defendant seized I -. 4 ’ e n PP»ng him violently • and although witness exclaimed that he wasex’ceed autborit y .defendant shook IKS “ nd then ordered him to be carried (as hewoubi J !# 0 ™ t0 the hold. He also asked him in a threatening manner, with a belaying Din in oafi'ThL 18 * hioh »« SK up 1 he hatch was removed and witness Dm^llS o^ batt ened down froSTl femefbwW*i r He was “ a sort of well tormed by the building up the cargo and the 3K W The SL BI^ 11, giviu S u him only room to sit np. ihe place was very hot and close and until £e found.fife the deck througn which he could get fresh air Sn ff re eas6 u d defend »nt asked him a,am for the letter, and then told him to go to his famdy Witness was ill f rom the elects ill to 1 L C t° P nd nem K t ’ an £ his **** was also too iaule b« bo d ] 0U h, ?S He claimed damages, be?b» bni I hj d , B , weated v °ry mu ch when down in , tb ® b ° ld > a “ d because when released the other passengers for a time avoided him, were very STAX*** - Md his [Left sitting,]