MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3029, 16 March 1917, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. L. G. Tteid, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. / John Whitelaw, who had beon twico remanded for medical observation, appeared on charges of failing to answer questions put to him relative to enrolment in Expeditionary Force Reserve, and failing to enrol lit the Reserve. Inspector Marsack said inquiries showed that the defendant bad enrolled, and tlie chargo of failure to enrol might therefore be withdrawn. Ho handed to tho Bench a medical report upon the mental condition of tlie defendant. His Worship said he thought the case wfs one in which a conviotion upon the first charge, without a fine would bo sufficient. Judgment was entered accordingly, and Whitelay was discharged. _ For being drunk while in charge of a vehicle in Riddiford Street, James Bowker was fined 10s., with the alternative of spending three days in gaol. , Susan M'Laughlin, forty-seven years of' age, was charged with insobriety and the \ise of obscene language.. Defendant had a. long list of previous convictions far various offences. She was fined 20s. 'on eaoh charge, the ,total alternative being fixed at fourteen days' imprisonment. CIVIL ACTIONS. •

Judgment by default of defendants was given for plaintiffs in the following caßes: —To Ato House Drapery Co., Ltd., v. Samuel William Rudd, £4. costs 135.: Commercial Agency . and Sargood. Son, and Ewen, Ltd., v. J. M'Clearv. £56 Is. Bd., costs£3 18s.; E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., v. Alex. Houseman, £13 16s. 2d., costs £2 Os. 6d.; Carlyle Bcatson Robertson and-J. S. Watcliorn and Co., Ltd., v. Fred Horring, £7,165. 10(1., costs £1 3s. 6d.; P. R. Russell and Co. v. T. C. Street, 3s. 6d., costs £1 175.; E. J. Hyains, Ltd., v. Frederick J. Torrie, £24 18.' 5d., costs £2 145.; Levin and Co./ Ltd., v. Jno. Cross, £2 ss. 9d., costs ,10s;: Bannatyne and Hunter, Ltd., v. Low Hoong Bros., £7 55./6 d., costs £1 Bs. 6d.; W. J. Williamson r. Thomas W. Fox, £27 10s., costs £2 145.; Joseph George Morris v. Ralph Clias. Morris, £7 14s. Bd., costs £1 3s. 6d.: Carlylo .Beatson Robertson«md J. S. Watohorn and Co., Ltd., v. Thomas Geo. Newth, £7 195., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Edward Collie, Ltd., v. Wnr. Herbert Isherwood, 145., costs 55.; Henry Wilson v. Onyon and Co., £24 17s. 6d., costs £2 145.; Wellington Painters' and -Decorators' .Union v, John Dansby, '£1 65., costs os.; Bird and Jensen, Ltd., y. AV. Drinlcwater, £23 135.,* costs £2 145.; To Aro House Drapery Co., Ltd., v. David Eberlet, £2 10s., costs 10s.; Davis and Clatcr v.- H. M. Mnllins, £4 lis. 6d.. costs 10s.; A. E. Budd and Co. v. D. Donnellv, £5 135., costs £1 3s. 6d; _ On a claim by Harcourt -jud Co. v. Ernest George Broderick, for possession of tenement and £15, .judgment was given for plaintiff, with costs £2 Is.