APPEAL COURT.
(Pol 1 Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April (>. [ The Appeal Court this afternoon delivered judgment in the case of the Mutt County Council versus • Crawford and others. The appeal was from the decision of the Chief Justice, who granted an Injunction nga'iri,st tho Cguncil, restraining it from levying 1 a rate in the riding on the ground that the Council! hn<l not complied with the provisions' of section 149 of tho County Councils Act, 388(>, 'which section provided that general rates must be Joviod I separately in each riding, in accortfr-1 ance with the ex|K-nditure i(| ,'i«iroJ to 1)0 provided in such ridings ro- I sportively. Tho Chief Justice held t hat he wua bound by a former do-1 eision of the Appeal Court, under the Counties Act). 1870, and that ' both statutes contemplntod f-ei>aratv m financing for each riding. j; J Iho Court allowed the appcjl on | tho ground that suction 140 imposes ,*>o requirement as a condition precedent to the levying and making of the rate. * CoMs in thq Lower Court, ten guinoas,, and disbursement!! and i posts in this Court on tho hkrhost awe ' i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 792, 7 April 1905, Page 2
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188APPEAL COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 792, 7 April 1905, Page 2
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