BURCH v. PARNELL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 302, 5 December 1884, Page 3

BURCH v. PARNELL.

, This was a ease in which the plaintiff anil pealed against the decision of Mr. Booth, E’ 8.M., in a suit brought by the defendant to ■ recover a sum of £lO4. It appears that when Ktae case came before the R.M., Mr. Braasey, for Mr. Parnell, gave notice that on of his client he would forego all claim Hfoany sum above £lOO that might be deKdared due. It was contended by the other K-gide that defendant should state specifically Hhm actual amount claimed and necessary the he was willing to relinquish. Mr. Booth gave judgment in favor of Parnell for ■ £96. Burch appealed and the appeal, which a came before the Supreme Court yesterday, in I' Wellington, was dismissed with ten guineas ft costs. It thus appears that it is immaterial ’ what amount one person may sue another f for in the B.M. Court, over one hundred f • pounds, the limit of the jurisdiction of the -- B.M. Court. So long as it is announced at ■' the outset that any sum (without specifying ■ the particular amount) over the one hundred , pounds is abandoned. ’