SUPREME COURT SITTINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 December 1901, Page 4

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION).

Invekcabgill, December 4.

At the Supreme Court today Justice Denniston granted an injunction with 30 shillings damages to S. Fletcher, against the Lady Charlton Gold Dredging Company for pollution of a stream.

The principal argument for the defence was that two dredges were at work nearer to plaintiff's land, than the Lady Charlton and that the injuction would not give plaintiff clean water. The judge held that it did not matter as individual diggers could be restrained from polluting water in tliis case. The other dredging companies had entered into an agreement with Fletcher. Anothea mining case P. B. Pilcher v. E. Smith (Palmerston), wan for an order for taking of accounts and payment of balance due to plaintiff on >ale of mining property at Waikaka, which was a joint spec of the parties. Smith had stated that their rights were sold for £3O which was all needed to pay expenses, but Pilcher discovered that Smith had got £205 besides the right to graze ovrr and crop the land till required for mining. His Honor said it was plain that the parties were partners and defendant must account to plaintiff. Wellington, This Day, The Supreme Court was engaged all dry, hearing a charge against Frank M, Clark, of having stolen £6 15s from the proprietor of the t talisator at Master!; n. The case for the Crown was that Clark collected dividends on a second horse the dividend of the former amount being larger than the latter, and refused to refund the difference. The evidence for the defence was not concluded when the Court rofe.