AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 90, 29 May 1877, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Friday, May 25,1877. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., R.M.) BULMER V. GILES.

This was a claim of £3 10s. for medical attendance. Defendant paid £2 2s. into Court, being the amount of the first bill received from plaintiff, and disputed the balance. Dr. Bulmer stated that the first account rendered by him was made out in error, but if defendant had paid the costs into Court, he would have been quite satisfied to have withdrawn the case. At the suggestion of the Bench, defendant agreed to pay the costs, and judgment was given for the amount paid into Court, with costs. PEABDE V. EVERETT. This was an action to recover the sum of £9 10s. for medical attendance. Defendant contended that the plaintiff had received money, from. Mr. Shadbolt, and £2 which he had paid on account, for which he had received no credit. Plaintiff stated that Mr. Shadbolt had never paid him anything on account of the present claim, but he had been requested by Mr. Shadbolt to visit the late Mrs. Everett, for which visit he had received payment, but that had nothing to do with the account in question. The £2 received from defendant had been duly credited. Judgment for amount claimed, with costs. PEARDE V. HILL. , To recover £4 10s. No appearance of defendant. Judgment by default for amount claimed, with costs. PEARDE V. J. B. BARKER. This was an action to recover the sum of £2 Bs. 9d. for medical attendance. The defendant filed a set-off for. £4 18s. 3d. for bacon supplied, and contended that plaintiff had made the visit to Little Akaloa entirely upon:his own responsibility. It appeared from the evidence that defendant had despatched his son to Akaroa, with a note to Dr. Pearde, describing the symptons of a complaint which his son had been attacked by, and requesting a prescription, but the doctor fearing the symptons indicated scarlatina, declined to accept the responsibility of prescribing, and intimated his intention of paying a personal visit, which was carried out three days after the receipt of the letter. Defendant saidthat he had settled an account with plaintiff for £8 after the visit sued for, and held that it should have been included in that account. The Bench gave judgment for amount claimed, with costs. WOOD BROS. V. SHADBOLT. Mr. Inwood, who appeared for defendant, asked for an adjournment till Tuesday, which was granted. ; The Court then adjourned.