Seddon y. Taylor.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7741, 17 February 1905, Page 2

Seddon y. Taylor.

| TllK I.AWHI IT TKHMINATB!'. | l'l I.L TKXT OK HICTTMCMRKT. I tlVr I'ress Association.) CIIIiIKTCIH ItCH, fe'i. 1«. l lie Si-iiittt-Tuylor sl.itrier ctt' 1 h«K boun settled out of Court. The following is the full text of th' settlement arrived ut Itoth part'lew to this action rcco#nise that there is every prolmMlity of a succession of train without miy definite result, except a heavy wcjxise of law costs. Hence each side ugreen that it is dtwiruhie to terminute this "litigation, (1) Mr Taylor admits that faidhc, w hen making his speech in tin- llouf,-, hoen informed o{ the evidence which Was afterwa.ds given ut the trial, he would nut have male nny wtui>ment in Ills S|»eech implying that Ca|>tain Seddon hud lieen courl-niuHial-loJ.

• 2. Captain Heddon admits that bad he known Mr 'I aylot* tiKM-ely answered Mr Dutiiie's interroga'iion in tl&j manner proved, and that he mode, prior to uny action bring taken, no other publication on his >wle of the House of Kepivsentutives, he would not have brought this action, i («) Captain Seddon admiu that Mr 'Jtoylor mode his speech in the House in good faith. | (-1) Mr Taylor udmits Captain Seddon was not court-murtiulled, but that the evidence show* that an informal inijuiry at which C«pUtn ,Seddon was not pit-sent was he(4<n- ,«« the Hlestmk Spruit affeir, and (that there was no evidence towbow jthat Seddon was round fault with as a result of such in»juirv, | (•') lloth parties regret that any , occasion was ghvn to bring the aclL <> "'J >nd HUjh having been Irought,. the verdict oil the jury was inconclusive.

ih\l , purtv to treat th s us an honourable settlement of this action, and without Uniting thu thing in this settlement shall |>e regarded in tho nature of an aiMikwy n.V either party.

(7) The action to be withdrawn • each party t,, pay their own co«U,. '