MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Riddoll, S.M.) HUTT ROAD COLLISION. ! . , WHOSE FAULT? At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Frederick William Meyer, baker, Brooklyn, sued Ande Hafstrom, of Ohariu, for JC2O 3s. Cd., as damages which, plnintilt said, resulted from a collision between liis motor-car and defendant's cart. Hafstrom counter-claimed to recover .£2O as damages resulting from llio sumo occurrence. , „ Mr. E. K. hirkcaldie appeared for \fpTpr, and Mr. fteaxe for ilafsh-om. ' iV collision, occurred on llio flutt

Road on the night of March 2!l, ' near Ngahauranga. Meyer declared that as ho was driving in at a Modenito speed, nnd with l'nur lights on tho. car, 'ho suddenly came ttpnn (ho defendant's cart. There was not time to avoid a collision, lie swore that ho had been un the proper sido of tho road. Defendant denied several of Mover's statements, and attributed the mishap to Alleged negligeneo on the part of Meyer, who, ho said, had eonio suddenly round a corner, and had gone on to the wrong sido of thu load to avoid some new nielal. Ho denied that he had had no lights oil his vehicle. Decision was reserved. UNDEFENDED CASES. In tho following undefended eases, judgment was entered for tho plaintiff by default:—Frank Edwin .Mitchinson and Montrose Irwin Mitchiiisou v. Robert William King, 12<., and costs 75.; E. AV. Mills and Co., Ltd., v. Alexander Campbell, ,£2G 18s. Gd., costs lis.; Barber and Co. v. Cieorgo Douglas, £\ 10s. 7d., costs 75.; J. Myers and Co. v. 0. A. Vincent., j£B Js. Oil., costs ,t2 10s. Gil.: N.Z. Times Co., Ltd., v. O'Sullivan and Co., XI 10s., costs 55.: J. ]{. Clarkson and Co., Ltd., v. John J. , Spillanc, ,£ll is. 7d., costs 155.; same v. William Gamble,. Jill! 2s. 6d., costs his.; Charles John M'J'hee v. William Wilson, .£ll costs XI 125.; Gd.; Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Co., Ltd., v. Christchurch Poultry Supplies Co., X2o'.los. fld., costs XI 35.; Public Trustee (estate of. William Sloan) v. James Matheson, XlO3 lis. 5d., costs XG Os. !)d.; Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., v. the Metallic Sign Co., X2'J 9s. Sil., costs X 2 lis.; London "Times" v. Harry G. J'Jriggs, X 2 Bs. Bd., costs 10s.; Abbott, Oram and Co. v. J. H. I'rrv, XI" Is., costs XI 10s. Gd.; Walter Piatt v. Arthur Stollerv, X 5 13s. 6d., costs XI 4s. Gd.; and lv. Breeze v. Charles Krieg, X 3 10s. lid., costs 13s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Arthur H. Dharty was ordered to pay Elizabeth Cruin X 3 lis. 3d. by May 15; licit Thompson was ordered to pay XI Is. Gd. to William Jury by May 15; and Charles Rigs . was ordered to pay F. lierendsen XG Gs. in instalments of XI per mouth." . ' THE POLICE CHARGES. STOLE XlO. AND SPENT IT ON RACES. Norman William Carson, a youth, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stoien XlO belonging to Kobert M'Doimhl. M i'. A. M. Salek, who appeared for tho defendant, asked the Court to be lenient with di'lemlant, on account of his immature age—less than IS years. The theft, counsel stated, had not been premeditated. The youth, who worked in ono of the Government ollices, had been sorting papers at n pigeon-hole, and Ml'. M'Donald had come and put a purse into a eoat which had been hanging near by. The youth had not had enough liionoy with which to clothe himself, so as to keep up the.appearances generally maintained by Civil Servants; his clothes were out at the elbows. -He had been tempted, and had taken, tho numev. Detective-Sergeant MMlvehey Enid that Carson had: spent nearly all the money on horse racing;. He had got leave to go to Auckland through showing his office a "telegram" purporting to convey the news that his father was ill. But tho "telegram" had 'been found to be bogus. Mr. Salck Stated that Mr. M'Donald was willing to allow* the - defendant to retain X 2 to help him to go to Auckland, and there get work. Defendant, proposed to live at home, and to repay the, money at tho rate of 12s. fid. per week. His .Worship accepted this offer, and convicted defendant, .and ordered him to appear for sentence' when called on. OTHER CASES. • Mary; Louise Seott was accused of importuning people in a public street. Mr. H. I'. o'l.cary appeared for her, .Did asked that she would be given another chance. Defendant was convicted, and ordered to appear for sentence when called on. Frank Thomas Pelleit was fined X 3 for breaking a prohibition order. . For iusobrietj Alfred Newland was lined 10s.