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O'BRIEN AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS; M'MAHON AND OTHERS, RESPONDENTS.
Nklso.v, December 5.
Judgment in the above appeal from Warden Stratford's decision was delivered by his Honor judge Broad at the District Court this morning, at considerable length. The judgment concludes as follows :—Having regard to the spirit of our gold fields' laws, this seems a case in which forfeiture may be fairly mitigated by the infliction of a penalty, seeing that appellants have done so much upon the claim, and that hut for their discovery of gold nothing would have been heard of this case. It would be harsh to decree an utterly destructive forfeiture, confiscating all the appellants' property and giving the fruits of their hard work to other persons: th.i judgment of Warden's Court will therefore be varied by declaring that a forfeiture had been incurred ; but, ordering that there be substinue I for the forfeiture a penalty of £2O, of which .£l9 is to be paid to respondents and £1 to the Queen. The deposit made on appeal to be returned. No other order as to costs.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1620, 6 December 1881, Page 2
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