LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 9

LAW REPORTS.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. i (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) j TWO WEEKS' IMPRISONMENT. : FOR WORKING A LAME HORSE. .' Tho question of tlid fitness or unfitness of a cortain-horse for work was investigated by the Court. The animal in question belonged to .Samuel Bray. Constnble Taylor deposed that ho had seen tho horse being used when it was in a state of serious lameness. , . . Inspector Seed, of. the Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Veterinary-Surgeon Quinnell, supported the allegation that the horse was unfit to work.." ; . •'.■..,.. : The defendant _' Bray ~ and Frederick Crossley, a veterinarian, were the witnesses tor the defence. . Tho former stated that the horse had been all right when he had taken it to work in the morning, and had developed the lameness suddenly, later in the day. At .the .time Constable Taylor had seen the horse it was not in the shafts, 1 -but .was being led behind a dray. i At the conclusion of the evidence Sub-' luspeotor' Sheohan remarked that this was the fifth occasion on which Bray had been before the' Court on charges of illusing horses. ,' ' "The defendant is sentenced to fourteen days',imprisonment," said his AVorship, USING; ANOTHER'S: RAILWAY PASS. •Harold Davis was accused of having travelled on the railway between Wellington and Palmerston North without having paid the fare. . ' Defendant did. not appear. Evidence was given by a ticket inspector to the effect that'Davis, who had at one time been employed on.the railway dining cars, had presented.'a. pass belonging to a man employed in one of the express train galleys.,. ,■."■:.'•'. 'Davis was-fined 55., with costs £1 lis. , THE RACE-CARD SELLER. . '• ' 'Charles a boy of eighteen' years, was charged with having evaded payment of his railway, fare from Wellington to Trehtham.' i It was stated by the boy's mother that he had acted as alleged under the misapprehension that the fact that he was selling race-cards entitled him to do so. 1 The-prosecution stated that-the lad-had paid tne':araount- demanded when,' on arrival at Trentham, the position was pointed "out to him. '-.-,•. Macaulaywas ordered, to pay tho costs of the proceedings, lis, ..', / .. ■ .-..:."."'' ———-■ i ■ : ■ .;;■ '.':V.--othercases.' - A prohibition order, was made, ont against Harriett Moloney. 'For having infringed,the terms of his prohibition orders, John Michael O'Briein was fined £3, and John Price was fined &■ ;- . ■■'■ . ' 'Jane Thomas was granted a separation from her husband, John James Thomas, who was ordered to-pay 10s. per week towards her support. _ . i For' having disobeyed a maintenance order,made by the Court, Jeremiah S. Pope was ordered to pay £1 Is. costs.'. ■Thomas O'Neill was fined £2 for having'assaulted John Garrett,'and an additional- £2 for having resisted arrest.