SUPEEME COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 267, 8 December 1876, Page 2

SUPEEME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS. [Before his Honor Mr Justice Gillies.] YESTERDAY. Carlin Gill and Wife v. J. A. Harley. The jury retired yesterday afternoon about five o'clock, and shortly before six returned to the Court with a verdict for the plaintiffs, damages £150. THIS DAY. Reilly v. Fellows. This was an action brought against the defendant for having, as was alleged, removed in January, 1875, fifteen chains of the boundary fence between the properties of the contending parties three chains on to plaintiff's land. Plaintiff claimed £50 the value of the land, and £15 10s special damages for the removal of the fence. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Fell for the defendant. The evidence, as is usual in such cases, was of the driest and most uninteresting kind, and involved the introduction of endless maps, plans, and deeds. His Honor, in summing up, said that in the whole course of his experience at the bar he had never seen so trumpery an action. The jury, after a few minutes absence, returned, and stated that they were of opinion that a trespass had been committed, but without any attempt to commit an injury. His Honor said that if a trespass had been committed there must have been an injury in law. The jury again retired, and very shortly afterwards found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing. The slander case between the same parties having been settled out of Court the civil sittings have now terminated.