SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 238, 27 February 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WAXUAXI7 SESSION'S. By Telegraph—Press Association. 7 Wanganui, Wednesday, lue Supreme Court the cluing' against Dunn of shooting with intent was reduced to one of common assault He was found guilty and sentenced to twelve mouths' reformative treatment at Invercargill.

-A SLAXDER CASK. Wanganui, Last Xiglit. At the Supreme Court to-dav a cas« of an unusual nature was heard, when J. A. Fraser sued Osmond Dislay and Ins wife, al] of Haleombe, for £507 damages ior slander and Tmtlioious proseeution. lho ease was the result of a recent private prosecution in the Magistrate's Court, when Fraser was charged \vitli having assaulted Mrs. Dislev the affair being alleged to have taken place in a bakehouse. The ease was then dismissed. Jhe jury to-day awarded the plaintifl £IOO.

THE calendar

The autumn sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth open at the •Courthouse on Tuesday, March 4. The civi! list is fairly heavy. The following ■is u Jist of the cases;— CRIMINAL. Jiex v. Edward William Stockman bieakmg and entering and theft. Rex. v. Edward Tuthill, four charges of fraudulence in reference to his bankruptcy, and one charge of contracting debts without having reasonable expectation of repaying the same.

CIVIL. Before a special jury of twelve:Arthur Howard Playle (Mr. D. (i. Smart) v. the Rivcrdale Co-operative Dairy Factory Company, Ltd. (Mr. D. McCarthy), claim for £lOl damages for alleged- libel. -Before a common jury of twelve:— •Tames George Johnston v. Thomas Currio List (Mr. .). 11.. Quilliam), claim for £5Ol damages for alleged libel. BEFO.BE .JUDGE ALONE. James Hay ward (Messrs. Caplen Welsh and McCarthy) v . Albert Edward Hayward (Messrs .Halliwell and Sellar) claim for £439 9s 7d for moneys alleged to be due under a dairying and milking agreement.

Joseph Crockett (Mr. J. E. Wilson) v. Colquhoun Marr, (Mr. C. H. Crocker), claim for £;)0, being principal anil interest, alleged to be due on a promissory note. The Public Trustee, as administrator pf the estate of William Birnie, deceased (Mr. J. W. MacdonaldJ v. John Jamieson (Mr. James Foy), claim for £2OO and interest, for moneys alleged to have, been lent. r Sylvanus B. B. Budge, administrator of the estate of Martin Tamawai, deceased {Mr. Ayson) v. Parete Teira. otherwise Paris Taylor (Mr. A. If. Johnstone), claim for £l7O 3s (id and interest, for money alleged to have been wrongfully pbtained by defendant, under a succession order, a will having been left by deceased. ' c Alexander MeEiven (Mr. E. L. Barton) v. Thomas Taylor (Mr. .T. L. Weir), claim for possession of land, and £1(19 7s 8d arrears of rent, and £9O for occupation of the land. Arthur Ernest. Otway (Mr. A. R. Standish) v. Margaret Mitchell (Mr. A. H. Johnstone), claim for £l2O, commission alleged to be due on the sale of an hotel lease. William Siiell (Mr. A. R. Standish) v. Patrick Raill (Mr. A. 11. Johnstone), claim for possession of land, and mesne profits. There is a counter claim for ,specific performance of an agreement for the sale and purchase of the said land, or in the alternative £2OO damages for breach of contract. William Padden Snell (Mr. T. A. Coleman) v. John Baxter Connett and Mary Ann Elizabeth Mclvee, executors and trustees of the will of William Padden Snell. deceased (Mr. D. TTutcheii), claim that defendants be ordered to hold the sum of £432 0s 2d. alleged to be a proportion of plaintiff's share lindertbe wilJ of deceased, in trust for the plaintiff.

IN BANCO. Tn the matter of the will of Rudolph Schcibler. deceased. Km ma Jane 1 Scheibler. widow of deceased an originating summons for an order for maintenance, under the Familv Protection Act. 1308.DIVORCE. Mary Ann Loftus (.Air. Quilliam) v. Thomas Loftus. Petition for dissolution of marriage on the grounds of desertion. IN BANKRUPTCY. Re David Smith Fox, a debtor. Public examination of bankrupt. Re Margaret Harrison Brooking (Mr. W. (J. Ma lone), for order of discharge. Re Tlengist Greville. a debtor. (Mr. A. R. Standish), an order for discharge.