MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES Mr. G. 'A. Cooper, S.M., presided over a sitting of T.IIO Magistrate's Court yesterday. ... John Evanson, charged witli assaulting David Bertie on June 2EJ, so as to •cause him actual bodily harm, was remanded to Friday. Inspector Hendroy explained that the man, who was alleged to have been assaulted was still an inmate of the Hospital, but would probably be able td be present ait court, on Friday. : ' A remand to .Tuly 13 was granted in tlio case of William Henry Mitchell, charged v with stealing an overcoat, a pair of boots, and a portmanteau, valued at £5, the property of Sydney Dall, from tho Hotel Bristol. . Claude Illingwort'h was fined 405., with' tlio alternative of 14' days' detention, on a charge of indecency in Manner's Street. For drunkenness, Samuel Herbert Hunter, a trooper, was fined 205., ill default three days' imprisonment) and Charles Dickson was fined a similar amount. Three first offending inebriates were dealt with, one a man in uniform, was ordered to be handed over to tlio' military authorities. , ' • CIVIL' BUSINESS. A' civil dispute arising out of a t recent caso in which two circus employees sued a oircus' manager for boat fares to Sydney, was heard by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., yesterday afternoon. Tlio parties in the original case were Frederick and Olive Leonard, plaintiffs, and Frank J. Barton, defendant, and the Magistrate then gave judgment for! plaintiffs for the fares, on condition that they left for Sydney by a certain v date. Plaintiffs, did not leave for Sydney, and the judgment was accordingly voided. In the new dispute, the position of the parties was reversed, Frank J Barton claiming from the two Leonards £6 10s. Plaintiff alleged that he had incurred considerable expense _in defending the previous action, which was not a bona fide one, in that the Leonards did not want the 'fares, but merely sued plaintiff to "show him up." After hearing the evidence, His Worship said t'lmt it clearly showed that. ■ the Leonards had intended to stop ; in' New Zealand. Judgment would be given for plaintiff for £6 10s., with costs £3 3s. Plaintiff further claimed from tho defendant, Fred Leonard, £3 3s. for services •of a stallion, alleged to bo rendered in September, 1914, and 10s. driving fees. The Magistrate disallowed this amount, howover. Mi-. H. F. O'Leary appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Douglas Jackson for defendants.. 1