An Impounding Case.
(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, February 2. To-day Mr Justice Denniston gave judgment in the case of Findlay \. Barnett, an appeal from the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court on an impounding case, in which the point was whether " the nearest accessible pound " meant the nearest pound in a straight line or by the nearest road. The Magistrate had decided in favor of the latter. The Judge said that he considered direct measurement was most convenient, not merely in the case before him, but speaking generally. It might be that in the present case the value of the convenience would be on the side of measurement by the road, but it must be remembered that the object of adopting the now recognised rule was avowedly to prevent all such discuseion. Those whose duty it was to interpret Acts of Parliament bad to avoid doubts and difficulties. There did not appear to him to be in the present case any real express enactment or any necessary inference apainst the regular construction. The appeal would be allowed with costs £7 7s.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2
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178An Impounding Case. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 182, 4 February 1897, Page 2
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