SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. To-day the Chief Justice refused to grant probation to a young man naimed Otto' Benson, who had been committed for sentence on two charges of theft while in the Feilding Post Office. Prisoner was sentenced to six months in the reformatory prison at Inveroargill. .Judgment was given for plaintiff .in the case William Banks v. Cheltenham Dairy Company, a- claim to recover £250 and have cancelled a promissory 'note given by him to the company and still held bv it. The Judge said plaintiff was entitled to succeed in tflie action in both branches. He mentioned that a meeting of the company had resolved to return the money. This had no bearing on his decision, but it freed tfhe company from all imnutation of dislionestlv retaining plaintiff's money. | ['Banks had promised to pav v'2so to the company towards covering defalcations by the secretary. Ross, on condition Ross was not prosecuted. He was prosecuted and sentenced to a term oif i'Tiorisommient, and Banks could not secure the return of his promissory note.]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 92, 27 July 1910, Page 5
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181SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 92, 27 July 1910, Page 5
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