SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 423, 23 May 1902, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

SOME INTERESTING CASES AT NAPIER. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Napier, last night. At the Supreme Court to day, iu the case of Carlson v. Connor and Lloyd, in which plaintiff sued for trespass on his land, and for timber cut, it was shown that defondants had acted under the bonafide belief that they were entitled to enter upon tho land and cut the timber. The plaintiff agreed to submit to a judgment for £lO without costs, aud to a perpetual injunction. In an appeal case Naumann v. Smart, an appeal from a decision of Justices at Hastings convicting the appellant of keeping a house wherein prostitutes were allowed to assemble, the respondent being the local Sergeant of Police, by whom the information was laid, His Honor said the case as stated did not sustain the convic tion, aud tho appeal was therefore allowed, and the conviction quashed, without costs.

An appeal easo in which Patterson, Mossmau, and Co., financial agents, ap pealed against a judgment of the S.M. in an action brought by the appellant firm against Crowley, Creagh, and Williams, for the recovery of moneys advanced by discounting P.N.’s, and in which the decision of tho Magistrate was against the defendaut Crowley only, was heard, His Honor reserving bis decision. In the Divorce Court a decree nisi was granted in the action Mary Louisa Webb v. Cyrus Alfred Webb, bn the grounds of desertion and adultery.