North’s Appeal Abandoned.

Patea Mail, 21 August 1882, Page 3

North’s Appeal Abandoned.

COSTS NOT PAID.; We understand that the intended appeal against the decision of Jude Rawson at Paten, in the case of North v. Williams, has broken down through nonpayment ot costs, as required by the Judge’s order. * Notice of Mr North’s intention to appeal was served on Mr Hamertou (solicitor to the defending parties) on Friday last, a few minutes within the time required ; bnt as the costs incurred in the defence at Patea were not also paid as required, the notice to appeal became void.

The costs of the defending parties were £l2O (less a few shillings), and Mr North’s creditors would have to pay these before the case could be carried to appeal. The costs incurred on Mr North’s side in the preliminary inquiry at New Plymouth were about £IBO. If this amount had been paid out of Williams’s estate by the trustee, we may suppose that Mr North’s appeal could have gone on, as he would have been able, out of these funds,, to pay the other costs of £l2O. The trustee was probably advised by the solictor to pay nothing out of the estate until the result of the appeal was known, as it might reverse the Judge’s order as to costs. This is something like a game of euchre.

Tlie other motions which were to have been hoard on Wednesday before the District Judge at Patea, will not now be proceeded with.