MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 20

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) THEFT OF GOODS Horace Hartman (Mr R. A. Young) and Samuel Henry Clegg (Mr W. F. Tracy) laced two charges, the theft of' a rug valued at £1 ss, belonging to persons unknown, and the theft of a suitcase worth £1 ss, the property of Charles Holdsworth. Hartman was further charged with the theft of a handbag valued at 10s, and of an overcoat valued at £3, the property of Cecil Thomas Sleeman. Mr Young said that Hartman had not been before the Court since 1936. He had tried to go straight. Mr Tracy described Clegg as "one of the victims of the 40-hour week." He and Hartman had started drinking on the Saturday, and had been drunk all day. Each accused was fined £5, in default 30 days' imprisonment, on the first charge, and on the others they were convicted and discharged. TOOLS STOLEN Reginald Richard Barnden pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing an axe, valued at 12s 6d. the property of the Public Works Department, and to another charge of stealing a fork, valued at 14s 6d. the property of the Canterbury Education Board. On the first charge he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, and on the second he was fined £2. ON LICENSED PREMISES For being on licensed premises after hours, the following were each fined 20s and ordered to pay costs: —John Gordon Matthews. William Charles Frizzell. Ronald James Crossan, Walter George Millar. Thomas Christie Prescott, Joseph Whearty. Walter Percival Hampton. Richard John Humphreys. ATTACKED BY DOG i William Charles Peters was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs for being the owner of a dog which attacked John James Price. CHIMNEY ON FIRE For allowing a chimney to catch fire, Francis Henry Steel was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. EMPLOYMENT FUND FRAUD Albert Edward Savage was fined £ 10 and ordered to-pay costs for obtaining money from the Employment Promotion Fund by making a false statement. John Henry Teichmann Burrowes was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three years, for obtaining money from the Employment Promotion Fund by false statements. He was ordered to repa> £22 as directed by the Probation Officer. COWS AT LARGE Harry Barton Moore was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs for permitting 39 cows to be at large in Burwood "I promised you people that it would be £1 a head." remarked the Magistrate, giving sentence. "That would be £39—what are you going to do about it? One of these days 1 1 will break out and make it £1 a head. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) Judgment by default for plaintiffs was given in the following civil. Slimsf-L.B. Scott, Ltd. v. C Hill, £1 12s 6d; Hutchinson Motors, Ltd., v. Charles O. Lilley, £2 lis lOd; Smith and. Smith, Ltd., v. H. Buchanan £6 13s 8d; Sargood. Son and Ewen. Ltd., v M. G. Martin. £2 5s 8d; Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., v. J. F. Leyden, £5 19s 4d; L. Matson (H. Matson and Company) y. S. Binham £1 10s; same v. C. Grainger £3 18s 6d, A. J: White. Ltd., v. John Stanley, £1 19s 6d; A. J. Clements v. H. Ware, £1 14s lid; St. G. Atkinson and Company, Ltd., v. A. McDonald, £l7 Is lid: T. H.. Davies and Company v. J. W. ? Francis, £9; F. A. Brown and Company v. Margaret Newton, £2 ss; Stanley Lawrence Ashton v. Ruth Atkinson, £7; JUDGMENT SUMMONS In a judgment summons case, A. King was jacdere,d to pay McSkimming and Son, Ltd., £7 16s lOd forthwith, in default eight days' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as he pays 10s a week. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Judgment for a plaintiff claiming against an insurance company the sum of" £l7 "13s was given in the case of Ai B.'iTopp v- the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd. Mr T. A. Gresson represented Topp and Mr I. Walton appeared for the defendant: company. , - ■*The case depended on whether an illness plaintiff had suffered had been appendicitis: or'-, renal* calculus, which; have similar symptoms. The company claimed that it could not be established that the plaintiff had had appendicitis, and that he therefore could not recover from the company.