MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. D. Ct. A. Cooper, S.M., dealt with tno police cages in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Alary Halford was fined £3, in defaultone month's imprisonment, for having us ™ obscene languago in Tory Street. l'or disorderly behaviour in Tui Street Mary Gibbons was fined -G2, in default seven days' imprisonment. For insobriety, John O'Neil was fined CIVIL BUSINESS. til the following cases Mr. W. 0. Riddell, S.M., entered judgment for the plainJ; 1^ 3 by default:—Wilford and Levi v. Matthew Hiekey, .£1 ls. ; and costs 55.; City Corporation v. Herbert Chester, £2 19s. 10d., and costs 75.; Australian Mutual Providciit Society v. Jacob Mischewski, <£o2 os., and costs 45.; Wairarapa' Far-Co-operative Association, Ltd., v. M. F. Dempster, 195., and costs 125.; H. Oscar Hewitt and Co., Ltd., v. Robert N. Loane, i's. and costs .£1 ISs. Gd.; Gollin and Co. v. E. MV Biggs, £2 Is. Gd., anil costs 10s.; J. B. Clarkson and Co., Ltd., v. Graham and Henderson, .£l2 12s». mi co . st 3 >' James B. Hulbert v, 1 nomas Priske, .CI, and costs os.; Thompson Bros,, Ltd., v. Lou Hoong Bros., .EIG l<s 5d., and costs £2 Os. Gd.; Champion and Co., Ltd., v. Racha'el' ICvle, ,£lO 3s. 2d„ and coats .61 10s. Gd.; Preston and Co., Ltd., v. Mrs. H. Green, 18s. Gd., and costs 55.; I). and • J. Ritchie v. Mrs. Dorothy A. Moore, JE-t Bs., and costs 125.; Abraham Whittaker v. L. I'. M'Milhn, •El lis. 3d., and costs ss. The C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hard 7 , ware Co., Ltd., and Stuart Johns, builder, wied Arthur "Johns, Wharf labourer, . Brooklyn, for .£3l 7s. lid., money alleged ; to remain owing respecting the erection : of a house for defendant. The case was only partly heard by Mr. Richlell, when an adjournment till August 24 was made. Mr. T. Neave appeared for the plaintiff, , and Mr. H. Kennedy for the defendant. i George Godfrey Martin, farmer, Nai Nai, claimed .£25 from Thomas Reesby, woodcutter, Lower Hutt, oil the ground that defendant had shot four sows belonging to plaintiff. The' question of tho effectiveness of a certain fence by which the pigs gained access to defendant's property arose, and Mr. Coooer adjourned the case until he personally inspected tho fence. Mr. E. P. Bunny appeared for tho plaintiff, o.ud Mr. J. J. M'Grath for tho defendant.. , i 1