WAEDEN'S COURT, AHAURA.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 852, 20 April 1871, Page 3

WAEDE N'S COURT, AHAURA.

(Before Mr Warden Whitefoord.) _ Sutherland v. Torrens. — TMb was an action to decide the ownership of a section in the new township of Granville, at Half Ounce, and also to obtain damages against defendant for alleged destruction of a building erected by plaintiff on the section in dispute. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant marked out the section when the town was laid off by the Government surveyor. He left it for some time, and on his return he found the plaintiff erecting a building on it. After some dispute, defendant seized an axe, and levelled the structure. Evidence was taken to show the amount of damage done by defendant, and also as to the ownership of the section. The Warden made an order that defendant was the owner of the section, and made an order that he should be put in possession of it, but as he had taken the law into his own hands he would have to pay the plaintiff L 8 with costs for the damage he had done to his building. Connel v. Elliot. — An action to recover possession of a section on which it is intended to erect the Bank of New Zealand at the Ahaura. The defendant had jumped the section because it had not been held in accordance with the byelaws in not being properly registered or protected. The protection had been renewed three times, but notice of renewal was posted only once at the time of the first registration. The plaintiff proved that " plans and designs " for the new ] Bank were in course of preparation, and ' that the section had been cleared and , otherwise improved. It came out that j the Bank had purchased premises already erected. The Warden considered the plaintiff had proved that sufficient had been done to retain possession of the ground, and gave a verdict against the defendant, but without costs, as the plaintiff had not complied with the rule in not posting the notices properly.