R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4185, 6 August 1892, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

EKETAHUNA.-FRIDAY,

(Before Colonel Roberts, R,M,,and A. Anderson, J.P.) 0, Alve v, A, Ure. Mr Beard for defendant, Claim, £27 8s 6d. The defendant paid £lol9s into Court. Plaintiff, sworn, stated he agreed with the defendant to erect eighteen and a-half chains of fencing at 13s per clmin and seventeen and a-half chains at 10s and to clear twenty-two chains of line at 6s. On the 30th of March he asked defendant for money, He was told that he would have to send to Wellington and would have an answer next week, Ho asked again in about a week and he said he had no answer to his letter. He asked on teveral occasions afterwards l)!}t got no satisfaction. He had not completed the fence because defendant had not supplied him with staples', By Mr Beard; He was a practical fencer. He had been at the work for the last fjfi een years, The ljnes had been cleared do as tp let sheep or cattle pats, No width of lino was agreed upon, tho pnly agreement j being that there should be room for sheep to pass between the fence. There may be poine of the posts loose on aooount of water, There was no arrangement as to when the fence should be completed. Rhode, sworn, thought the fence had been put up in a workmanlike manner.

A. Ure, sworn, staled that in January last he arranged with plaintiff to erect the fence at 12s a chain. That was all he asked, Witness asked hini to look at it as he wanted a' good' job' done, After seeing it k said he would not do it .at piat price and wanted IBs. Wfiness offered 13s if he would make a good job qf ft'j tho l)n(j fa b> cleared a fopt wi(}e, and hp agfeei} to, it, The work hadngt been dqne according to agreement, Witness had bad experience jp fencing. Johnson, sworn, stated he was an experienced fence; and bad examined the fence in dispute, The bottom wire was (oolar off the ground, and sheep could get under it. The posts were not put in properly and were not firm. The fence as erected was worth about 7s per chain. It would cost 6s to finish it,

J. Drysdale and J. Bell corroborated the evidence of the last witness, Jlidgnjent yyas given for the amount paid into Court i plaintiff to pay costs of solicitor L2 2s, and witnesses' expetses LI 16s,