MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3097, 30 May 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

0 POLICE CASES Mr. L. G. Heid, S.M., presided over the police side of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. John Marshall, who had spent six years and three months of the past seven years in gaol, was charged with his habitual offence, vagrancy. He Imu been released from prison on Saturday last, and had since wandered about till he was arrested. "Evidently, he only wishes to Ret back to gaol," commented Sub-Inspector Dew. Marshall was given the satisfaction of a month s imprisonment. Francis Connell was fined 10s. for insobriety, and Henry Jertson £3 for using obscene language. John Daniel Keenan, who pleaded guilty to a charge of begging alms in Lambton Quay, was sentenced to two months in gaol. CIVIL CASES. Mr. W. G. Biddell, S.M., presided over the civil-side of the Court. , Judgment by default of defendants was given for plaintiffs in the following civil actions:—Edward Collie, Ltd., v. Harold Platt, XI 18s. 6d., costs Bs.; Margaret Blythe v. James Masterton Ferguson and Ida J. E. Ferguson, -CIS 155., costs .£1 13s. Gd.; Mrs. Douglas v. Miss Alice Short, £3 55., costs £1 12s. j Alexander Robertson v. Ernest Archer, .£3 35., costs 125.; D. C. Waldie v. Samuel Platt, £1 125., costs and pos.*ssion of tenement; same v. J. 51. Miller, £\2, costs £1 10s. 6d. Judgment summons cases were dealt as under:—H. Lewis was ordered to pay Ellis and Manton £2i ss. Gd. by Juno 12, or servo twenty-one days' imprisonment; Ralph Charles Morris was ordered to pay Joseph George Morris, .£lO _2s. Bd. by Juno 12 rr serve seven days' im--prisoument; W. E. B. Ackin was ordered to pay Charles Russell £20 13s. Bd. by instalments of .€1 10s. per month; J. W. M'Kay was ordered to pay Charles Russell £3 Is. 7d. by .Tune 12, or serve forty-oieht hours' imprisonment. His Worship delivered his reserved judgment in the case of John M'Wiljiains v. Stephenson, Ferguson and Co., in which plaintiff claimed .£125 or pos-session.-of a concrete-mixer, and .£2O damages for. unlawful detention of the macninp. Plaintiff was nonsuited, and on n counter-claim for £& 19s. for repairs to the machine, judgment was given for tho defendant company for £5 193. Hγ. A. W. Blair appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. A. Dunn for tho defendant company.