AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 550, 21 October 1881, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

♦ Before Jcstin Aylmer, Esq., R,M. Tuesday, Octobrr 18, 1881. KRKACiI OK UOKOUOII BYE-LAWS. 11. Burns for having a horse astray was fined 5s and cooO , .

CIVIL CASKS. Kissel v. Scott. Claim Us 6d. Mr Nalder for defendant. This was a claim ior the balance of an account. It appeared that a pack saddle had been ordered !>y Mr Scott for some one else, ami liv liad told Mr Kiet-el either to put it down to him or the other gentleman. Mr Kissel had put it down to Mr Scott, but the person who was the real owner of the saddle had subsequently p.iid for it with the exception of a balance of 14s 6d the sum dainiod for. On behalf of defendant Mr IValder said that when the owner of the saddle went to Mr Kissel to pay the debt, be distinctly asked, if there was any more owing , , and had been told there was not. As however, Mr Kissel's books which were produced in Court, showed on comparison with receipts that a ba'ance of 14s 6d was owing, the Bench gave judgment for the plaintifl for the amount claimed.

Bayley v. 1 ,, . Aid ridge. This was a claim on an J.O.U. for £20 given by defendant to plaintiff.

Plaintiff s-iid lhat he had {riven consideration for th\i ir;ori3y, having wild defendant a liorso fo- - £12. givon him cheques for 'iM and him ,tM cash, lie

raiiod Mr (J liml, who said he vvu.-i presont when a cheque for £12 was written by Bay.'oy in favor of dei'midaiit, for a horse. The horse wis sti'l owned by defendant. Mr A. Rodriijuea deposed to having recttived two .£2 cheques from defendant which had bmn drawn iv his favor for plaintiff. Defendant denied the debt in toto, saying that he had made an arrangment with plaintiff, that it shouid be paid by Mr T. Welsh who had borrowed JC-iO'O from plaintiff. The ,£2O vnm to by included in the £300. The Magistrate asked defend nit whether it was iiis tlia! v.-.ia aLtaolietl to the LO/J., ;i)i.i oil his saying that it niiglit be, but tli/tt if it w.'ire, ho did not know what he was about when he signed it, gave j niguient for plaintiit' for the amount, ol.iilUou isild Ci)St«. •'J'P.ANSfCP. Ol' , LICUX.SIO. Apijlicaiiuii wit.-, inado for the transfer of the ii:.'u:i.-o of Llis; on Iho Il.il! Ton from K. Jackson, to 11. Hrickland. The npplic;".ii;-n waa granted. Tl:c Co.it then adjourned.