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a forgery but no evidence was adduced before the Full Court proving the truth of this suggestion.
The result of the Appeal was that the Full Court reversed the decision of the Land Court saying that probably the Respondent had fishing rights but nothing more.
We respectfully submit for your consideration that the facts above recorded are such as to support very strongly the Appeal which on behalf of our clients Messieurs E. S. Kelly and Ellis Kelly, we now respectfully make to you with a view to their obtaining satisfactory compensation for the loss and damage which they have sustained and the costs and expenses which they have been put to in the matter.
In support of this we particularly refer you to the facts which we have mentioned above in connection with the correspondence of Messieurs Deacon and Hastings as Solicitors for the Vendors with the Colonial Secretary, wherein the Colonial Secretary distinctly assured Messieurs Deacon and Hastings that the Crown Lease would be issued in due course.
It has never been suggested that our clients were parties to any fraud or other species of deception on the Land Court.
We call your attention to the fact that the Judgment
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