MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3178, 31 August 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVII/ BUSINESS. Ml-. L. G. Beid, S.M., was on tho Bonoh at, tho Haglstratd's Court yesterday, and, dealt, with tho civil cases. Judgment was givou for plaintiff by defaiult in tho i following easC3:-Oommer-cial Agency, Ltd., and. Oyolo and Motor Supplies, Ltd., v. H. IV Grahaoi. £14 14s. 5d., costs £1 10s. 6d.; flcott Motor Agency v. Dr. 11. Bertram, £6j costs £1 10s.; 3tf.Z. Acotylone . Gab' Lighting Oo„ Ltd., t. Tliomas Steward, £12 2s. 6d., costs, .£1 10s. 6(1.: Vcitoh. and Allan t. Jtiss D.. Buflill, £4 45., costs. 10s.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Binjr, Harris, and 00., litd., v. S. Bmith, £15 2s. 7d., costs £l,los. M.; John Ohamlicrs and Son. Ltd., v. W. Waddcll, £10 17b. 6(1., costs £1 lJs. 6d. JUDGMENT' SUMMONS. Orders "were made in' judgment summons cases as follow David Ebcrlct wa,s ordered to pay tho To Aro House Draiiory Co., Ltd., &i ss. by' October 1, in.default tlrco days' .imprisonmont; Ernest' O. Docltcry was ordered to pay Smith and Smith. Ltd., £4 15s. M. by instalments of 10s. a month or undergo three days' imprisonment. In tho chso of Sara.il ißabolla "Wiliiarafl t. Mary -Aitkon,: claim for possession of. a. tenement, judgmcct ivas given for plaintiff, ■with costs £1 9s. CLAIM FOB, DAMAGES. Janet Lawson. • married • woman, and Oharlea Halo, poultry-farmer, JiotU of Pa,ra.paraumiui, proceeded against A. J. Hulme, farmer, to recover damages alleged, to have been caused by a iiro lightedi by tie dofendant on his on January 27 last. The parties occupy, neighbouring properties, and. tho firo spread to tho land ocoupicrt by tho plaintiffs,_ causing considerablo damago and depredation 111 tho valuo of tho proporlics. Oharlcs Halo sotig-lib to recover £120, and Janet Laweon £40. Mr. If. F. laiokio appeared for tho plaintiffs and Mr. P. W. JaoKeon for tho defendant. Afteo.* a parti-al hearing tlio ease "\vas adjourned until fioptembcr 4.COLLISION CASK. Boforo T»[r. 6. B. M.'Ca.rthy> S.M., in the Magistrate's Oourt yesterday afternoon George Henry Hunt, farmer, and his *wiie Mildred Hunt, for "\?hom Mr. J. J. M'Gratli appeared, proceeded against OliS/plain of tho Forces W. H. Roberts, roprcEontcd by Mr. 0. H. Trcadwcll, to rccover damages arising out of a . collision, betweeu defendant's motor-car and plaintiff's gig on the evening of March 17 last at Taita. •It waj stated that plaintiff and liie mo find ohiHTen, who liad attended tno pictuxes at the Lower Hutt, were _ returning" homo in the gig, which was bemg driven at a slow speed. It was alleged that defendant. so unskilfully md : neeliKcntJy drovo and. managed his motor-oar that it collided with plaintiff's gig, .wMi was overturned and . damaged, tho lamps and harness were also damaged, the norso was injured, and liio plaintiff and his wife and children, who were thrown out on the road, wcao bruised and >njurcci. Plaintiffs claimed £41 ss. 6d.. fecial damages, George Hunt clamed £10 general damagos, and Mildred Hunt £15 general damages,- making a-total of *66 5s 6d. ' Tho evidence of tho plaintiff «3. H. Hunt) and couple of witnesses was 1-akcn, and. the further heariCK.of tho casO adjourned to Wodnciday lioxt. ■ POLICE CASES. Mr. S. Yi. M'C-arthy, KJJ.; heard lihe polico cases in tho Magistrato'«. Court-yesterday. Eobort Brassell was chagod with deporting from an oversea vessel xn Apiil. 1916. Mr. K. F. O'Leary appeared for accused, who in hi§. evidence stated that.-ho was a ffreman on the vessel named on the dato mentioned. He came ashoro at 6 a.m. for a drink, and returned to tho wharf a little before 7 o'clock, when he discovered that tho -vessel had -left at 6.30 <i.m. Ho missed tho vessel,.but had no intention of deserting. Ho lost between; four and five months' wages and all his Kit. About 15 months ago ho reported to the Shipping Master at Wellington, who told him that he had been posted as a deserter. -H« then got a permit to situ on tho coast, lie enlisted in the local Forces for homo service, and had been 9>«ce discharged us being unfit. Ho was now not in a sta o of health to bo to sea. Iho Macistrato dismissed tho information, holdnie tliat (,]io accused ha-d missed ht-s passatte. Vor insobriety thrco first, offenders were and fined 10s., in delUilt 24 hours imprisonment, and . another was fined Zos„ with the option of 48 hours' imprisonment.