APPEAL COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 19 May 1890, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

Important Decisions'

■\ Welunoton, Monday. •■The Appeal Court, on the motion of a Canterbury Law Society, suspended a Ohristchuich solicitor for two years for excessive, charges to a Client, and ordered him to pay 25 guineas cqsts.

In the case Bertie v Equitable Insurance Company, the Court reversed the judgment of the &M„ Justice Richmond finding that the Company had issued a policy to Bertie different to that which he was

led to believe he was getting. . ' > Judgment in the TeKootioase was ' not delivered, and the Court ad- ; joucned till June )6th. .• ,

Sly Grog .belling. Napikb, Monday, At tho Napier R, 11, Court, Thomas Thompson of Inland Patea, on two charges of sly grog selling was mulcted in a fine and costs of LIB 16s, or two months imprisonment. He accepted tho latter,

The Murder Case. New Plymouth, Monday, At the R. M, Court to-day, on Main Kai bping brought up on remand charged with murder, Mr Samuel said it was illegal to detain ,the accused on the charge of uiurder, Tließ, M, replied that he could not uphold 1 tlieso contentions, and remanded Miihi for. another .week'. The iuquoat is proceeding,

: The Aboition Case. Dusedin, Monday, ■ The ' Court was crowded on Saundetso'n'B case being callocl on. Sir liobert Btout eaid the prosecution had, ascertained that the pills and powders supplied by the chemist i were perfectly harmless, and there i was nothing for it but to withdraw, | the information. This was accord- , ingly done. Mr Fraser, for defen- , dint, claimed that his client was i entirely innocent,