UPPER HUTT COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 9

UPPER HUTT COURT.

TIIK CAiUCATUKE OX A ?AXK. At a'sitting of tho Upper ftsui Magistrate's Oiiirt before Mr. f) U. A.. C'oorwr, S.M., Whitonmn 'Bros., dairy fanners, claimed a sura «f £3 lf)s. fromi Goflrnc Snntlice and Eton Sonllwe ict alleged wilful damage to property. ■ Air. \V. S. Barton appeared for plain-' tlll's, mid Mr. JV. V, Neilsen represented f!ii- defendants. During tiui course of the ovidmiee it was slited that a verbal agreement ox*, i isied between the parlies, whetcby the plaintiffs were portntUetl to draw water f'Tim a stream on defendant's property. This water was stored in a tank. The lil'mants had been m noidibourl.v tenns until Frederick Arthur Whitemaii, ter 56U10 unknown reason, had rmintsd n caricature on tho funk, and to this caricature to hni eut tie lißflie of diefeu-

dant's daughter. This had been reseiiied by hoi-, anil her father had told her to chop the tank down, This had been done, and the claim therefore was foi' the vn.Ui(? of thn Iznk) ai'id also for thy tess sustained by the' cutting off of the water supply.

■ At'tor hearing argument, his Worship gave judgment for tho amount claimed, with costs intromiting t«> £2 ss. OTHER CASKS. Fiji' allowing stock to wander, James Kearney was hired 55., and casts 7s. Harry Clay was convicted and discliargect on a* charge of being the owner of an unregistered dog. In a civil case, K. Crabtree. v. K. Abbott, a claim for £15 55., judgment was given for plaintiff by default, with 15s, costs. No order was made in the judgment summons case. F. F. Boyd v. W. Davis, a. claim for £31 14s. 10(1.