SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 55, 26 August 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTOX SESSION'S. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston \ T ., Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Sir Robert Stout, a decree nisi was granted in the cases of Richard Andrews v. Margaret Andrews and Samuel Mitchell, co-respondent, adultery, with damages by arrangement £2o; and in A. J. Petersen v. Elizabeth Ellen Petersen, and Leonard Robinson and W. lies, corespondents, adultery, decree nisi returnable in three months, petitioner to pay IG9 per week towards the support of the respondent till the decree is made absolute.

Bendix Christensen sued George Green for negligent driving of a motor-car and severely injuring plaintiff, who was claiming £OSO general damages for injury to health 'and .£75 special damages. The jury brought in a verdict of special damages £75 and general damages £275. The plaintiff was riding a bicyclS along the road in Palmerston'. Defendant was driving n. motor-car with a bicycle in the back of the car, the wheel protruding six inches over the side of the car. The wheel struck plaintiff in the small of the baek, knocking him down and severely injuring him. WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Wellington, Friday, .lolin Maloney was found guilty of indecent assault on a little girl," and was to-day ordered by Justice Sim to be detained for reformative treatment, the term of detention not to exceed seven years.

Allen Lee, a Slovenian, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for thefts from a warehouse.