MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2294, 30 October 1914, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

,l CHARGED WITH FORGERY ACCUSED REMANDED . , - ' -i ' Mr. D. ,G. A. Cooper, S.M., dealt with tie police cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning.- , . Charles EdwaTd Kossitor Ruddick appeared to answer two charges of fori gery, one of forging the name of E. Earl to a. document and| uttering the same to Andrew Clark, 1 and the other of forging the name of R. Wright to a document and uttering the same to Fredk. Campbell Fraser. Accused was remanded to Wednesday next, bail being allowed in £25, with two sureties of £12 10s. each, or one of £25. OTHER CASES. James Gallagher was fined £3 or ono month for using obscene language, and £1 or seven days for resisting- Constable Harrison. ■John Smith, who had assisted and incited Gallagher in his resistance, was fined £2 or fourteen days for obstructing the police. ■ For drunkenness Thomas Watson was fined 10s. or 48 hours.. Five first offenders wore dealt with, and one was convicted and ordered to pay medical expanses, 17s. 6d., and tlio others convicted and discharged. CIVIL CASES CLAIM FOR 7 GOODS AND WORK • i DONE. Further evidence was taken in re-spect-to the civil claim for work done and goods supplied, which F. H. Jansen, plumber,; of Wellington, preferred against A. H. Hunt, Civil Servant, of Wellington, tbe amount involved being £21 10s. 6d. The sum of £15 had been paid into Court by. defendant in full settlement of tbe claim. After some of the witnesses bad been examined the case was adjourned to- Tuesday next. Mr. V. R. Meredith appeared for plaintiff and Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon for defendant. . DEFAULT. DEBTORS' LIST. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases, by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.: D. T. Jones v. Wni. Compton, £5 65., costs £1 7s. 6d.; The Window Manufacturing Co., Ltd., v. F. Sutherlands, £43 12s. Bd., costs £2 145.; Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., v. Mabel Wigg (trading as Mabel Blackett), £71 15s. 7d., costs £4 lis. 9d.; Macky, Logan, Caldwell, Ltd., v. M. Shamoy, £13 13s. 7d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; same v. James Patterson, £23 Is. 2d., costs £3 3s. ; Public Trusteo v. Lionel M'Donell, £1 10s., costs £1 45.; Wellington Loan Co., Ltd., v. Jas. Howard and P. N. M'Grath, £8 15s. 2d., costs 165.; United Farmers' Co.-op. Association, Ltd., v. R. A. Sloan, £5 19s. lid., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Charles Begg arid Coy., Ltd., v. Dora Muriel Livingstone, £26 195., costs £4 Is., and possession of a piano; Public Trustee v. Jessie Belinda Lucy Compton, £5 ss. 4d., costs £1 6s. 6d.; Harriott Livingstone v. Absalom Hesp, £22 195., costs £2 145.; Commeicial Agency, Ltd. v. W. and D. Brocklebanlc £14 45.. costs £1 10s. 6d.; same v. James E. Pereival £31 4s. 4d., costs £2 145.; same v. Henry Fowler, £60 175., costs £4; J. O'Brien and Co. v. W. A. Edwards, £17 12s. Bd., costs £1 10s. 6d.; J. H. Whittakcr and Sons v. Walter Karews, 14s. 5d., costs 55.; J. Harper v. Walter Lonsdale, £10, costs £1 3s. 6d.; Walter Whiteliouso v. Arthur F. Newbold £10 ; costs Bs.; R. Philpl v. Millician and Pctherick, £3 55., costs 10s. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. F. Simmonds and Co. were ordered to flay H. C. Gibbons and Co., Ltd., £13 10s. 7d. before November 12, in default fourteen davs' imprisonment in Napier Gaol. '