LUXURY OF LAW.
ADVICE FROM BENCH.
The alleged obstruction of a watercourse running from one section at Kaiapoi through another led to a Supreme Court action, tho bearing of which was commenced at Christchurch. His Honor oommonted on the foolishness of settling the dispute involved by moans of expons sivo litigation when a single referee chosen by the parties could decide the matter much better than a judge of the Supreme Court. He did not suppose the lawyers would grumble, but the proper course would have been for the parties to obtain a competent and respectable engineer to inspect the locality and arrive at a settlement of the dispute. He mentioned a ease in which tbo whole dispute could have been settled for £4O at the beginning, but which bad already cost the parties over £2OOO in expenses alone, with tho result that tho watercourse, when found, was not worth a farthing to the person who got it. That, added His Honor, is an illustration of the luxury of the law. These wretohed local squabbles could better be settled by an engineer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1629, 18 December 1905, Page 2
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