Mayor Etc of Oamaru v Clarke - [1927] NZLR 464

Practice — Appeal to Supreme Court — From Magistrate's Court — Appeal on Law and Fact — Claim against Borough Council for £105 18s. 5d. — Action not brought within Six Months — Order made by Magistrate under Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, s 353 (8), waiving Non-compliance but imposing Condition that Claim be reduced to £30 18s. 6d. — Whether Appeal on Fact will lie — Notice of Action — Error therein and in Statement of Claim as to Date — Amendment of Statement of Claim — Whether Sufficient Notice — Street — Planting Trees — Duty of Local Authority to light the Obstruction — Magistrates' Courts Act, 1908, s 153 — Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, s 353 (1), (2), (8).