THE LAW OF NEIGHBORS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 268, 16 October 1883, Page 2

; THE NEIGHBORS. ,

■X" '.'. ( B ?t TELEOBAPH.)^ - (united press association*-) '< Dunedin, (October 12. Rather an uncommon 'kind of case was heard before Mr »v*att, R.M., today; Thomas Allen;- 'gardener and florist, sued Professor McGregor, of the Univefsifcv, for £34 15s; value of plants "destroyed through his greenhouse having been broken by the dcv fehdaht's act; * The circumstances were that plaintiffs garden is next to the Dunedin Bowing Club's ground, where defendant and others play fives. LT_e '} layer s;bf ten knock the ball over tbe wall, ahi, as defendant m evidence, it was a common joke for players to say, "There goesanother of Allen's panes of glassV' Plaintiff said 500 or. 600; balls had come over, of which he returned abobi 60. On July 20 two panes were 'smashed by a bail, and Professor McGregor and another gentleman came- after -it; LNearly everything m the greenhouse han been ruined through the -panes being broken^. JHis Worship held that, unless defendant P 'could*'" be shown to haye 1 stiuok the ball which did the damage, a non-suit must follow. Nonsuited accordingly, without costs.