MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1424, 26 April 1912, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Dr: M'Arthur, S.M.) CARTER'S. CLAIM. HURT WHEN LOADING WOOL.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday Daniel Scanlon, carter, Wellington, claimed from Dalgety and Co., merchants, i!2S us. Gd. as special damages, and £W as general damages, in respect to an accident whidh befcl plaintiff ■ while he was loading bales of wool at defendant's store.

Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for the plaintift, and Mr. A. Blair for tho detendant.

Waintiff stated that on December 15, IJII, ho was engaged in carting wool from defendant's store iii Thorndon WW- His cart was standing under tho lilt well, and tho bales 'Vero being lowered- to it from an upper story. During the process, a bale had fallen on to the cart, and had struck another bale, and then knocked, him off the cart, with the result that he had received injuries which had incapacitated him until January 16. Between December 15 and January 16 he had lost earnings amounting to .£22 10s., and afterwards had lost .S5 through only being able, to work half-tune. Also, he had incurred medical expenses 10s. Gd. He claimed that the accident was due to a defective machine or to carelessness on the part of somo servant of defendant.

Iho defendant declared that the machine used for lowering the bales was not defective, nor was the servant employed careless. _ Defendant, it was alleged, had been bending over one bale adjusting it in the cart, and, in rising, he had struck his. head against a bale which was suspended above him, waiting to be lowered. Defendant had then become confused, and had fallen off the cart. Decision was reserved. UNDEFENDED CASE 3. . ' In the following cases judgment was given for the plaintiffs by default:— Drapery and General Importing Co. of Now' Zealand, Ltd., v. Archibald Colquhoun, .£2B, and costs £'A 195.; Carr and Bell v. W. Hall, £5 10s., and £1 3s. Gd.; John Chambers and Son, Ltd., v. Frederick William Mills, £1 7s. 4d.,- and 55.; Christopher O'Shea v. Daniel Braniff, £1 Is.- Id., and 75.; Annie Harnett v. E. F. Lankow, .£1 3s. 6d., and Bs.; J. and A. .Wilson, Ltd., v. Archibald Colquhoun, .£l6, and £2 15s. 6d.; William Henry Suckling v. Kenneth Ronnie and Rita Rennie, .£3 10s„ and 135.; Alice Kirkland ■v. H. Chiverson, .£5, and .£1 os. Gd.; E.' W. Mills and Co., Ltd., v. Arthur, Thomas Daken, costs 125.; Charles Pr'att'"aiul Co'.'' ■v. Henry E. Jones, 410 4s„ and „£1 13s. 6d.; Carr and Bartlett v. ' Frederick D. ! Davis, £2 13s. Cd., and 10s.; Ruth Woodham v. Arthur Alexander Wallace, £3, and 10s.; J. G. Rnine and Co. v. Charles Bragg, .£1 19s. lid., and lis.; Cycle and Motor Supplies, Ltd. ( v. Shakleton and Sons, £8 7s. v 2d., and J!l'3s. 6d.; Tho Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Co., Ltd., v. Alfred Henry Scott. .£39 9s. Bd., and £1 35.; William Alfred Brown v. Andrew Theodore Anderson, £i 17s. id., and 125.; The.Wellington Publishing Co., Ltd., v. Marie Black, .£lO 19s. 6d., and 165.; and Joseph T. Lewis v. Archibald Crawford, ,£5, and £1 2s. 6d. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Herbert S. Pointon was ordered to pay Joseph Boucher and Co. .£27 4s. by instalments of 10s. per week; Duncan Campbell was ordered to pay Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., £& os. Gd. by May 9; James Cammock was ordered to pay E. D. Bust and Co. £G 13s.' 2d. by May 9; and A. Swindalo was ordered to pay Whittome, Stevenson, and Co. £2 16s. Gd. by May 9. POLICE BUSINESS." (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) ANOTHER OPIUM CASE. It wis alleged against Joe Chong that on April 25, at 47 JJaining Street, he had been found with opium in his possession lira form suitable for smoking; and also that he had been found smoking opium. Defendant, who was represented by Mr. A. L.Herdman, pleaded not giuitv.' Mr. Herdman applied for a remand, and the ■ Court adjourned the hearing till ■Monday. NO STEAMER TICKET. William-Phelan was charged with having travelled between Sydney and Wellington on the steamer Maunganui without paying his fare and with intent to evade payment.

He was fined £1 in., in default 51 days' imprisonment. If the fino is raid Hie amount of the fare is to be *jrtvarded 1.0 the Union Steam Ship Company.

OTHER MATTERS. Charles Henry Speakman was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, for an assault on William Ward. For having broken a prohibition older, George Lucas was fined £3. Margaret M'Neill was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having importuned nnd loitered in Ghuznee Street. Robert Burke was found guilty of a charge of his having stolen three brief bags, valued at ,£1 55., tho property of Leah Helper. He is to appear for sentence to-day. SMALL BOYS AND STREET GLOBES. Two batches of boys, numbering nine in all, were before the Juvenile Court yestorday charged .with having damaged olectric light gldbes. Five, whoso ages ran from 8 years to 12 years, were convicted and ordere4 to receive five strokes of the birch. Their ofTence was tho damaging of a ss. globe belonging to the corporation. In the other case, four boys, all of eleven years/ were accused "of damaging a 15s. globe, which was also the property of the corporation. Two, who pleaded not guilty, were discharged, and the other two were ordered to pay 7s. 6d. each as damages.