LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 5

LAW REPORTS.

, MAGISTRATE'S COURT. THE BUTCHER., SMALL-GOODS MAN'S' PAY. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., gave judgment in tho case in which the Inspector of Awards proceeded against Barber and Co., butchers, for- employing J. Lebherg as a smallgoods man at £2 llis., instead of 10s. per week. His Worship held that as Lebherg was employed for more than two-thirds of his time at small-goods work he must be paid the .£'3 10s. He considel'cd that a breach of the award had been-committed by the defendant company, who would be fined >£l. ■ CONTRACT DISPUTE. In a contract dispute between Edward Ross Sweeney and James Scott, judgment was delivered by Dr. M'Arthur, S.M. The claim was for .£2l Is. as the balance duo for work done and material supplied on a contract for kerbing and channelling. Defendant counter-claimed ,£l6 3s. for work done as a sub-contractor. Judgment was given for tho plaintiff for the amount claimed, and for the defendant for the aftiount counter-claimed. PURCHASE OF A FROCK. Edith .t'/.i's, Hill Street, Wellington, sued Frank P. Morrison, traveller, Wellington, for .EG 2s. for a frock said to have been purchased by his wife. Tho defendant counter-claimed for .£2 lis. 9d. as for material used. Mr. H. E. Anderson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. ,H. F. O'Leary for the defendant. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff in the claim .for .£3 65., with costs <£1 lGs., and for defendant on the counterclaim for £1 18s., with costs 2s. THE WATER-METER. John Varcoe sued Edward Hcllawell for .£2 10s., which amount was alleged to'bo due for a water-meter.-Mr. R. Sladden represented the plaintiff, and Mr. A. Fair the defendant. Judgment was for the defendant. UNDEFENDED CASES. In Mho following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default:— J. 11. Bethune and Co. v. William James Hart, .£2 Gs., and costs 155.; Southern Sales, Ltd.. v. James Alexander M'Bride and' Alexander M'Bride, ,£22 14s. 6d., and .£2 175.; Maria Thornton v. Lawrence: John Spyer. 12s. 2d., and 10s.; R. Hannah and Co., Ltd., v. W. B. Missen, ,£1 13a., and ss.The Community Distributing Co. v. Robert Cobb, £1. and Bs., and possession of a chattel; Turnbull, Hickson and Gooder v, Alfred C. Q. Stevens, £5 55., and .£1 3s. 6d.; Cederltolm and Tolley. v. Robert S. B. Low, 155., and ss.'; James Smith, Ltd.. v. Georgo Toms, ,£1 9s. 6d., uud 55.; F. L. Fitzgerald • and A. G. Pearce v. George and' Violet Fernandos, £1 10s„ and 10s.; John Norton v, John Bell, .£27 10s„ nnd £2 lis.: Maria Thornton v. William Henry'Newman, <£<1 3s. '4d„ and 10s.; Karori Borough Council v. Neil Buchanan, .£3 Gs. 4d., and Ills.; Frederick William Moore v. Henry : Tankard, .£1 10s., and 75.; and William Henry Suckling v. Florence Adam, ,£4 lis., and 10s.

, JUDGMENT.SUMMONSES. William Hawthorn was'ordered to pay Harry Hollowa.v £6 8s. f 6d. bv Jfarcli 18; Georse Henry Jones to nay AV. Wylie £2 10s. 2d. by. March lh; Charles Stevens to pay Harry IC. 14s. bv -March 18; and John Casserley to pay Christina Cook .£3 9s. by March. 18.' , , ; POLICE BUSINESS. (Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.) : ~ , .' THE.COCKATOO."v. ' ■James Force was fined J!1 for having stolen a cockatoo from Michael Levi; and' Thomas Campbell was- iined for liavin;; received' the bird from Force, well knowing that it-had boon dishonestly obtained. , THEFT ALLEGED. . Audrey:- Olscn was remanded till .Saturday on a charge of his having stolena garden hose beluiiijins to Grace Glover. The theft is alleged to havu been committed on November 1- of last year. INSOBRIETY. For insobriety May Gibbon was fined £1.