MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1668, 7 February 1913, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Dr. M*Arthur,-SJI.) : : ' ''■'■■' CIVIL CASES. : • . COMMISSION CLAIM PAILS.' . Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., delivered.judgment in tlio case in which John Henry Hooper, commission agent, Wellington, sued Edward Law, farmer, for;..£Bo.as.commission on the sale'bf Law's, farm 'at -Shannon to one George-Bell, now. deceased,. ~ His Worship held that-the-evidence of tho plaintiff, and the correspondence put in, did not disclose a'.'binding' contract between Law and' Bell, and that therefore Hooper was not entitled to commission. : Judgment was for. the defendant '■'•; .A MILKING MACHINE.,' ' \ J. B.'MacEwan and Co., Wellington, 'sued T.. A. B. • commission' agent, Levin, for J% 35., as commission, on the salo of a milking-machine. Mr. D. M. lindlny appeared for tho plaintiff, and .Mr.-E. J. Fitzgibbbn for the defendant:.' ■ , ■ .;:■-,■;■ ; Judgment was reserved. ; , MOTOIt-CAR COVER. . Hntrick and' Co., merchants, proceeded against A. (5. Crow, cycie dealer, Woodyille, for £l IDs. Gd., which, plaintiffs alleged, was due 1 respecting the salo of;tho cover of a motor-car;: ■ Mr.'E.:.J. Fitzibbon represented • the plaintiff, and Mr. E. C. Levvoy represented the defendant. ■ ..-•- : Tho defendant stated that the price of the cover was included in tho price paid .for the motor-car. •■•-.' ' . His Worship said that ho considered 1 hat tho weight of evidence was in favour of the defendant, for whom ho gave judg- . incnt. KENT CLAIM. In the case of Charles It; Paraln, estato agent, Wellington, versus George Charlton; farmer, Duuedin, a rent claim for .010 55., judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs £a os. Gd.. - UNDEFENDED. PASES. '.' " In' the following cases judgment was'enered for tho plaintiff by default:—Wol-' lwmnn and Co. v. Robert King, ,£l'l)s. 2d., costs is.; Thompson' Bins;, Ltd., v. Lawrence and M'Carfhy, £1 ss„ costs 55.; Commercial Agency, Ltd.,-v. O. W. Bonningtun, JIIO 15s. ■ 2d., costs-VEMOs.Gd.; 11. I'rico i,iul Co.,* Ltd., v. Bennett and Co., X 5 55., costs-'XI 3s. Gd-.; Horaco Danvors Baker ni>d Ellen Baker v. John I'hil--lips, .I'll lis., ei.sl.-j J:l lis. lid.; H. C. Gibbons ai;.l Co., Lid:, v, 'Frederick Simmonds and Co.. lid., costs 10s.: Walter 'Stanton and .William Grant Davillo Evans {

v. George. M'Gregor, ,£5 75.'4 d., costs ill ds. bd.i Charles Pratt and Co. v. -Edmund Stratford, M&s.; costs lis.; samo v. John M'Garrie, £1 is., costs 155.; sanio v. Honry.Downs,.-.JEIGiIGs; Gd., costs i!l' 16s. Gd.; same v..Prank Galyor, .£3 175., costs il.7s..6d.;.same v. Frank Misskeivski, .£2 35., costs-195.; same v. Ernest Sowry, £6 IBs. 0d.,-costs .£2 Bs. Gd.; Rosenberg and Coi v.-Robert'"Campbell, 165., costs 55.; same v. 1L Barclay Olivei'V '£2ss. Gd., costs 55.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. E.-Gorrish, 175., costs 155.; Cnd- ■ bury..Bros., Ltd.,;.v. vGeorge- Kirby, .£3 lis. Gd., costs' 55.; J. B.'MaeEivrin and Co.,"Ltd.,-v. A\Y H. Rehnie, .1:3 2s; 5d., costs 10s.; Agricultural;' l " Pastoral, "and Pood Co., Ltd., v. Christchurch Poultry Supplies Co., 18s., costs 55.; J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., v. Morion M'Konzio, JC67"; ■ 13s. ■ 3d., • costs M ::■ Is.' ■ fld.; Commercial Agency,' Ltd., v. John Hagcrty, ,£1 25., coats 55.; 6amo v. Alexander Charles B.: Munro, £\i 155., costs £1 ISs. Gd.; same v. Patrick Ring, £1 ss. Gd., costs ss.jsamo v. John Adams, .04 -l!)s. -2d., costs •lOs;; .same' v. -Chnrlvs Heima, £\, costs 10s,; samo-v. -William Herbert Eecles, '£l • 10s., costs ss.' A .WHEELWRIGHT'S . ACCOUNT. - . ; (Before-for) W. G. Eiddell; S.M.j i Michael-M'Grath.wheolwrigM', Wellington, sued Mrs. S. J. Bird, Wellington, for £H Bs. 6d., for repairing a vehicle;'and horse-shoeing. : ' ■ Mr. V.,15. Willis appeared for tho plaintin", and Mr. E. Kennedy for tlio defendant. ' ' • Defendant, declared that tho "work had been done for her «m; and tho Court nonsuited tho plaintiff. . ,'•■■ POLICE LIST (Before Mr, W. ; . G.. Riddell r Kenneth Green was remanded- till February. 12 on « charge of his having stolon a lady's hand-bag, a purse,'nud arils', 7.Jd- in money, from 1 the -person of Ellen Sunderland. .' ~ . ~"...) •For - Insobriety, Lilian- Ornioiidb was fined - 55., ; John M'Carthy; ,10s;, and John Mansfield 'was sentenced, lo 'one month's imprisonment. •Irank Quale was sentenced to ono week's imprisonment for having deserted from ' tho steamer Tiuak'na.