THE TRESPASS case, which Bike Mountain Waterfall Tours Ltd. has brought against its competitor Mayfield Falls and Mineral Springs Ltd. and its proprietor Sarah Willis, is set for hearing on May 4 in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate's Court .
The case was was mentioned on Tuesday before Resident Magistrate Allayne Frankson-Wallace, but was postponed to allow Bike Mountain's lawyers from the firm Myers Fletcher and Gordon to present certain documents in court.
Bike Mountain is contending in the civil suit that since June 1999 its property has been damaged due to constant trespass by representatives, servants or agents of Mayfield Falls and Mineral Springs Ltd.
LOCAL AND FOREIGN INTERESTS
The suit involves local and foreign
interests operating an almost similar waterfall adventure tours at the same location in Glenbrook district, on the border of Hanover and Westmoreland.
Bike Mountain is seeking an injunction, barring the defendant from trespassing on its property, as well as $250,000 in costs for damages and trespass.
Mayfield Falls, through its lawyers Winston Spaulding, Q.C and Don Foote are challenging the suit, and is seeking to have the case moved to the Supreme Court because of certain elements of the case, which it claims, is beyond the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court.
