The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday March 21 1921

hit very hard by the increased *ale of costs which the High Court considers essential to the success of the 'Mew scheme ;old it nmy be taken for granted that neither the Vakils as:a: body nor the repreee ntativas of the public in the Council would or could have taken up the matter so earnestly if time interest of the pub.- lie and in particular of the poorer had not been on the face of it ser [...] Whilst the vote in the Council does not kill the scheme the debate has undoubtedly brought public ()Pinion to bcar upon the cmestion in a measure which no amount of agitation in the press or on the platform would nave succeeded in doing. [...] The Magitrate being however unable to.decide the matter on the testimony of the witnesses azked the parties to prove by some material and tangible facts tihat the animal belonged to either of them. [...] apparently not in the mind of the MagiOratr of Alipur who made the eruc'al experiment upon the disputed cow in the ease reported in the papers. [...] First the complainant and the accused were allowed to choose different articles and the suspicion that the difference Might have had something to do in dctermiing the cow's preference did not cress the iiIincbt of either the parties or-dot' the MagistratFuthermore vee are me.told anything about the weight and the distance which. were regrded as important factors in the Case of Burida