Burns v The King - [1945] NZLR 635

Crown Suits — Practice — Suppliant with Consent filing Petition in Magistrates' Court for Damages within Jurisdiction of that Court — Suppliant electing, after Evidence heard, to be Nonsuited — Action commenced in Supreme Court on same Cause of Action — Damages claimed not within Jurisdiction of Inferior Court — Whether Suppliant may proceed with such Action — Crown Suits Act, 1908, s 36.