SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8923, 17 September 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

Civil Sittings. . t Hco Cooper opened the Civil Mr p the Supreme Court yesterday Sittings afternoon eiso called was Barton and Tl'O of Australasia, Hawke's others ,^ bßl . Co aa( j others. On this Bay ** called Mr Cooper instructed caso 1 Jlycrs, of Wellington, applied to If 51 ',!, case adjourned to Wellington liavo f° r for H.B. Timber Co. fiiftructed by Mr Morrison, of Welrhrton, for the other defendants acquiesc■a? the Judge made an order accordingly. Tlio next case called was an application for relief by interpleader by the Alliance Assurance Company. This was a case in which the Alliance Assurance Company mado an application for relief against the claims of William Alfred Sandilands, solicitor, Arthur George Carty, solidtrr,/ William John Williams, liotclkeopi r, William Ernest Grantham, pastrycook, a'l of i’eilding. and the Public Trustee of the Colony of New' Zealand, and of the Deputy Official Assignee in Bankruptcy of the property of Michael Hyland, of Fcilding, plumber. The sum of money under d iscussion was XB3 2s. It appeared that the shop of Michael Hyland had been burned down, and the sum of .£B3 2s, the whole of his assets, was paid into court by the Assurance Company, as both parties claimed it—the creditors because the money had been assigned to them, and the D.O.A. on the ground that the assignment was void. Mr Yon Haast appeared for the D.O.A. and Mr Cooper for tho creditors, with the exception cf the Official Assignee. Matthew Hylaud gave evidence as to the state of his affairs. Evidence was also given as to the position of the guarantors. His Honor ordered the money to bo paid over to tho Deputy Official Assignee and distributed among the general body of c; editors, costs to be paid out of the fund, ______