AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 463, 31 December 1880, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, Deo. 28, 1880.

Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., RM

CIVIL CASES. C W. Bridge v. Jonathan Roberts. Claim £10, price of a boat. In this case which had been adjourned, judgment was given for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs. J. F. Roberts v. J. M. Wood. Claim £20 for use and occupation. Mr Joyce appeared for the plaintiff. Judgment for amount claimed with costs. Akaroa Borough Council v. W. H. Henning. Claim £1 0s Gd for rates. Mr Joyce appeared for defendant. Plaintiffs were nonsuited with costs. W. Meech, as creditors' trustee in the estate of W. Kearney, v. G. Kearney. Claim £10 for wroughtful detention of a boat. Mr Joyce appeared for plaintiff. The evidence disclosed, to say the of it, a loose state of affairs between the brothers. W. Kearney had filed, and on tbe trustee proceeding to take possession of tbe boat, G. Kearney claimed it, alleging that it had been bought with his money. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, to be reduced to Is on defendant delivering up the beat. Costs were allowed including solicitor's fee and travelling expenses. Same v. G. J. Black. Claim £9 7s Gd. It was alleged that this debt was due to insolvent at the date of his filing. Defendant contended that insolvent owed him an account which would more than cover the amount.

After a short adjournment, the Bench gave judgment for the amount claimed with costs.

A gay and festive )-outh who had been "musing himself by annoying the audience attending a late pianoforte recital was discharged with a suitable reprimand.

The Court then adjourned