SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 22 November 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

Per Press A?sociation. Auckland, Thursday. Henry Toovey, charged with having furged and uttered totalisator tickets, at Auckland races, pleaded guilty. He was remanded to be dealt with by a Stipendiary Magistrate, who may commit him to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £SO and one of £IOO.

Auckland, Last Night. 11l the ease of the Maori woman Pcti ] Wntena, charged with the murder of her husband by striking him on the head with a bridle, the jury this afternoon returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and prisoner received a sentence of six months. Wellington, Thursday. At the Supreme Court to-day William Thomas Raymond, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of defiling a girl aged fourteen years, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. w"ith hard labor. James Egan, charged with using indecent language, was fined 40s and costs. Wellington, Last Ni^lit.

Edward Murtagh, jockey, was charged with wounding his illegitimate child, two years old, and assaulting Francis Leigh, 'mother of the child. During evidence it was stated that a summons had been issued against Leigh, charging her with perjury in connection with the case. Evidence was not finished when the Court rose for the day. Frederick Nicolaus, who was yesterday convicted of forging and uttering, was sentenced, to eighteen months' hard labor. Mr. Justice . Cooper to-day delivered judgment in the Supreme Court in the ease of Weir v. the Wellington Electric Lighting Company. A man named Corfield, working for Weir, was electro-1 cuted through touching a live wire which the load on a lorry be was driving at Miraniar had brought to the ground. Weir had paid Corfleld £lO5 13s as compensation for his death under the Workers' Compensation Act, and brought the action to be indemnified by the company. His Honor gave judgment for Weir, being of opinion that the wire, which before the accident was 10ft or lift above the level of the road, was not

sufficiently high for a dangerous wire. Duiu'din, Thursday. 11l the Supreme Court, William Harrison Latter, of Burkes, is suing the London Dental Company for £2OOO damages alleged to have been sustained owing to negligence and unskilful extraction of teeth by defendant Moses, by which plaintiff's throat- and lungs were permanently injured. A strong Bar has been engaged. The case is likely to occupy two days. It is creating considerable local interest.