IMPOUNDING CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 958, 24 December 1881, Page 2

IMPOUNDING CASE.

Ewisotos v Mkntklklow. [Before J. V. Smith Esq,, J 11/]I 1 /] This was h cine of allowed illegal imponndim.', tho defendant having no right In nnfer upon bind fur ihn purpose nf impniiiiiliii!! cattle.- horses, ke, Mr Bunny appanredfnrcomrl.iwnl. J H. M'ciikllclnw deposed: Ho was assistant ranger, nnd had been vcrballv appnin't>d hy Mr E. Bezir He lind impounded tlin enw off Imid which hn helh ved ltolnn»i»'l 11 Mr Ripp, who had tnld lr'm lie cniiltl impound any outdo he f.mnd nn it,

Mr E, Bezzar, poundkeoper ard ranger 'o 'he Romui/b, stated that he line! engaged Medt'elnw to act as assistatt '0 him on the authority of the Borough Council.

The Court hel I that, under clause 29 of the Impounding Act, nß»istance was prnhib'tol. Mr Bunny commented on the way in which the Down Pound was managed, contending that tho pnundkeepor should have no heneficial into eat in the receipts. Mr Bezir objected to these remarks, as reflfictins npnn him. Mr Smith ruled that they were irreeula 1- . Ho held thai Mr Bezir was not just : fied in inpounding off private land, and cave judgment for the complainant, with Mr Bizar protested against the remarks made by Mr Bunny, minuting discreditable conduct to him. Whatever he had dnno was porfnvmed in open daylight,and suhjnet to the strictest scruMny,.-' .. . The result of the case i« thatthejn)-. pnundina fee will bp refunded^the^defsri*. t d.ant to pay_co«tt..,, '..>;; ,^^. ?;: P