DISTRICT COURT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 23, 2 September 1882, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT.

.7 .': .i*:!!^ v .:■ ill *i "i i> /. *J i 'h. ; In the District Court, held at Palmer- i ston on Wednesday -last, the Kiwitea case, Munro and Temple v Bydder and! others; Wafs 'Heard l . *' Messrs Hawkins and I Madden for plaintiffs, and Mr Esam for; defendants. Mr Hawkins claimed for; his cUepts, £3oo, damages unlawful., restraint. 'The plaintiffs are 'well-known; sawmiUers in the Kiwitea district. It appears that a lease w».s_giveo by .Messrs .Death, Mills, and Bydder, th© defendants, to Messrs Munro and Reid Bros. After a time the Eeids sold out to Temple, who, tea" Became' ;i a : pSi/trier l With ' M^nro.i This assignment was not agreed to by' the Messrs DeAfhi and! thSey declined to : recognise Temple as a partner. Death pleaded that the -bash cutting contract had been broken, and required £500 se- i curity for the,, due fulfilment .of if s condition!, failing this he would seize the mill. The mill»bullocks_were seized, and work at the mill was stopped for three or four day •, when, the security was given and the bullocks released.' 'This- seizure was ' the basis of the action. The eridence i wu. iery -long, 'and would' occupy^ too '• much space to gi*e--more than we htfre : now.^m^n^. ,1 he Jury returned, a ver--1 diet for the plaintiffs, with £100 damages.