Show THE COURT the tile first taso case decided welded for flip the tenant by cy W u Teim raili to the herald NEW YORK nov athe abe ali erald special from castle blayney at last after a istra struggle cleof of two acard the landlord and tenant came on oil monday monlay ion face to face before the judges to decide what ana abair rent the first case under tile land act has been decided aided dhere lacre its result is a sweeping reduction amounting altogether to xa los in ili a yearly rental of xa two are sitting put but that at castle blayney was more important important than that at belfast the latter being concerned with case sunder the lie ulster cu custom the former being in a district where smaller holdings prevail and bei it more likely to brin bring out the characteristic features of the tile land question castle blayney blayney is is surrounded by bv much wretched land nd and diminutive holdings it is the home of the molly maguires Magui the tile coming of the tile corn com nerg attracted a number of persons to the town there were many lawyers commissioners kane bailey and garland sat in the tile court ll 11 house u so the fi first r s t e case se gone n into w was a s ht lic va ebow leli one n of f t the e most s t f famous h u which t have av e arisen inobe in the land it was ono one in which the league triumphed far and near car as it was a case of typical hardship the tito members for northeast lancashire became sponsors for the tenant and published the circumstances throughout the pre press of eng land the government yesterday accepted the challenge the decision wn was of great merest interest and importance the iha first tenant who thus came under the operations of tile act is patrick MeAt very of calabro Ca latro county monaghan Mona phanon oil the estate of henry bond an absentee landlord living in london tito holding is ten acres tho the rent xa tho tile government valuation is is 47 ie is an intelligent tell igent young fellow about 28 years old who after considerable having lived in t the he united states fa foury ur acari cars returned to his native and land and ia W d possession of the hold ings which ins his undo uncle then held since then lie has lived mostly as a railway employee amp ayee in it england being as tile tSo landlords and lords counsel characterized him an all absentee tenant the first witness ya forthe tenant t was unfortunately a lamentable fai failure ure ile W was vincent t smith surveyor and valuator for so of tit large estates ait thoN korth of ireland wiio swore ile suly holdings last week and gave it I is official estimate that it was worth worth 10 ad pet acre but the cross examination cx aminat brought out had 11 lie made tho the kalua tion forthe the landlord in 1876 when valued va bcd the estate at ad per acre sere when V hen confronted with the figure figures he said that lie rendered valuation va nation by order of the landlord without any regard to his own esti rne ate but as this rd mission him of f fraud by giving a false kalua tion til arh lie el left the court discomfited and sa any reni cred unfit to serve as witness in his te testimony stimon 11 lie andro proved by documents that his a n d lord ila d forced him t sign an contracting himself tit arb ei aal tile benefits i of the ulster cu stoin this was not denied and was called to prove that holding too 00 wy highly rented ono one witness swear aws r ing that the tile tenants right in it was worth about five pounds houndt alie Thea agent gei on othe the estate however swore that at had refused for he the holding and wanted some tenants swore that the land was bad and ta would hardly support a abal family the agent swore it was light and sandy soil capable of bearin bearing good bood crogg if acceptably farmed TO ta is issue asue being farly and ami fir larmy in joined the commissioner resolve resolved J to visit the e holding yesterday ve mornin morning and then rive give their decision they therefore gerfo her fo drove out early on tuesday day to ass me holding where a considerable number of neighboring tenants gathered and followed curiously at a their heels e s althey they went from front field to held field l testing the soil examining exa examining minin the crops and asking is ki ang questions of F tho the agent tenant and all all who were concerned berned the land on his holding was certainly in a wretched condition cond hion S badly drained and really r incapable pable of bading n made very valuable returning in ilic afternoon the commission sat to hear bear further evidence but nothing important was elicited when tile testimony was finished there seemed to be many y doubtful taul tf ul points but the commission decided to give judgment at once and reduced the rent to XO s and obliged the land lord to pay half of t ie county tax the whole of winch which the tenant had bad paid before saving the latter s yearly it also revealed that the government valuation on tv erys holding li was really y xa ls Q s making nl ak n a reduction of 11 18 as under griffiths valuation this ahls is is a belious defeat for the landlords but it was an inevitable e peces necessity sity that the first decision should involve reductions bcd colons tins this decision proves pro cs Par P nells clearness and wisdom in selecting tang for test cases those in which wi i ich the rents were not exorbitant but moderate so that the decision which at first was really necessary to the success of tho the act would be boa a precedent tor for further decisions of a similar character to 10 the of the haS landlords |