MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 23 March 1907, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. Barton, S.M., 'William Dolan, Frederick "Wilson, Tlios. Pearson, and James Pearson sued William Henry Renner for £155 Bs, felling 111 acres of bush in Ngatapa survey district, at.the rate of 18s per acre, and, alternatively, to recover £155 8s for work done on the same land.

Mr. Stock appeared for plaintiffs, and Messrs. Clirisp and Coleman foj defendant.

Mr. Stock, in opening the case for the plaintiffs, said that the question was whether all the work was properly done. Mr. Renner, jun., had declined to pay on the ground that the work done in the last two days was not satisfactory. The evidence was then gone into at considerable length to settle (fie point at issue as to whether the work ’had been done acocrding to specifications. The evidence" was conflicting, the witnesses on either side giving testimony in support of tliir version of the case, though it was placed beyond doubt that Mr. Renner, jun., had complained as to the manner in which the work was being done. His Worship said that' plaintiffs had entered into a contract to fell hush, and he was satisfied that the contract had not been carried out in the manner undertaken, and that the plaintiffs had not been relieve!! of the requirements of the specifications agreed to. Plaintiffs would therefore be nonsuited with costs £l6 17s.