SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4183, 24 July 1876, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS.

Saturday, July 22. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Williams and a special jury.)

JAMBS M‘BRIDE V, BROODER AND SONS.

Claim L 1,500, for compensation for damages sustained by plaintiff from a casualty en a railway line near Oamaru, then in care of, and in course of construction by the defendants. Mr Macassey appeared for plaintiff ; Messrs Haggitt and Sinclair for the defendants.

The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for L4OO.

Monday, July 24,

James Morrison and co. v. chas. plexman. This was an action brought by John Kenshaw, Woodville M‘Laren, and Francis Ren shaw, trading as James Morrison and Co., to recover from defendant the sum of L 232 on a bill of exchange due May 2, 1876, together with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. Mr Haggitt, with him Mr Sinclair, for the plaintiffs; Mr Macassey, With him Mr E. Cook, for defendant. Defendant in his pleas stated that plaintiffs were indebted to him in the sum L 342 6s 2d, and that before the commencement of this action he had requested the plaintiff to appropriate and supply a sufficient part of the said sum of L 342 6s 2d in their hands as aforesaid in payment and satisfaction of the bill of exchange in the declaration mentioned, bat the plaintiffs had neglected and refused so to do. Defendant therefore claimed to have L 232, part of the said sum of L 342 6s 2d, appropriated, applied, and credited by the plaintiffs to the defendant iu satisfaction and discharge of the same amount secured by the said bill of exchange in the declaration mentioned, and to have the same bill of exchange delivered up to him.

[Left sitting.]