MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 965, 4 November 1910, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CIVIL BUSINESS. (Before Mr. W. K. Haselden, 5.31.) George Turner Croft sued William Croft for MS 155., amount alleged to ■ lie due to plaintiff by defendant for board and lodging, washing, moneys lent, and goods left with defenßant for sale. Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. T. M. Wilford for the defendant. After evidence, judgment was given for defendant, with Conrt costs 45., solicitor's fee £2 95., and witnesses', expenses £3 Us. During cross-examination by defendant's counsel, plaintiff almost fainted in the box, and liis cross-examination was not proceeded with. ( Judgment by default was given for plaintiff in the following undefended cases-.—T. Porter v. A. Henry Eothenberg, .£3l 125., costs £2 Us.-; -Wellington Publishing Co., Ltd., v. James' Leslie M'Gregor, J£\2 Vis. 10d., costs 155.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., assignee Sheffield and Co., assignor, v. W. Marston, £1 9s. 5d..; costs £1 55.; W. G. Wholesale Manufacturing Co., Ltd., v. A. T. Hall, £i 10s., costs 13s.'; Sargoed, Son, and -Ewen, Ltd., v.' M. C. Lawson, £% os. 9d., costs 175.; John Norton v. P. E. Debreceny dfill 45., costs £1 10s. 6d.; Dunk and Pringle,-Ltd., v. Chas. Canning, £1 . ss. Bd.. costs 55.; Wellington Loan Co.', L'td., v. , Martin "and Joues; £15 3s. lid.,'costs .21 13s. 6d.j F. Cooper, Ltd., y. Stewart Haswell, .£2O 10s. 6d., costs £2' 145.; Gordon and Gotch, Proprietary, Ltd;, v. C. Stewart, £i l"s. Gd., costs 10s.; James Patterson v. John Smith, £1 11s. Gd., costs ss. : Alex. F. Davies was ordered to pay £2 9s. 9d. to the Wellington Gas Co., Ltd., on or before, November 17, iri default to undergo two imprisonment. . No order -was made in the case of James Smith, Ltd., v. James Joseph Cronin, a claim for £9. > - ; POLICE CASES.' (Before.Mr. : W. G. Eiddell, S.M.) Kalph Fletcher Voice, who had'pleaded guilty on-Wednesday to the. theft of .£l2 ss. 5d.. the property of his employer, ■.. A. Kellow, was brought forward for sentence. He was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment, the stolen money to be refunded. A young man, named Frederick Sherlock Jones, whom Sub-Inspector • Norwood stated had previously been sentenced t twelve months- imprisonment for three ci-i.Tgee of theft, pleaded guilty tj a c:- irpe )f c. lumitting a certain act in tne Botdnica! Gardens. He was ]erenrded til November.7 for semens. A first-offending inebriate was aned ft., with the .alternative of twenty-four L. urs' imprisonment. '