MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 57, 30 November 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., dealt with tho polico business in the Alagistrate's Court yesterday. For insobriety, Isa Leo was fined £3; Alice d'Beere was sent to the Salvation Army Homo for six months; Wni.. Charles Harvey was sentenced to three months' imprisonment; andPetor M'Carron was remanded for a week.

James M'Guire and Jai..es Oliver Armstrong were- each sentenced to threo months' imprisonment for having stolon a sack of potatoes belonging to W. J. A. Grant. Archibald Huntor was remanded till Monday on a charge of his being idlo and disorderly. On a charge of. being a rogue ana vagabond, William Irwin Black was remanded till Monday. Five charges of having stolen overcoats wore preferred against Gco. \\. Dinester. " Hβ' was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, afterwards to undergo reformative treatment. Frank Myors was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on being conviotcd of obscene exposure on the Hallway Wharf. .■.-■■• . . A: remand till Monday was made in the case of George Bazan, who was accused of being idle and disorderly.

OIVIL BUSINESS. ■ The civil cases were heard by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. In the' following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default:— Hope Gibbons and. Sons and J. o. Clarkson, Ltd., v. Henry J. Masson, £71 2s. 10d., costs £1 10s.; Hirst and Co., Ltd., v. J. H. Steer, £6 13s. 10d., cost'B £2 os. 6d.: Office Appliance Company, Ltd., v; Marcus Burke Rehoe, £8, costs £1 3s. 6d.; Blundell Bros. v. A. T. Dwyer- and Mrs. J. F. Dwyer, £2, costs 135.; same v. H. A. Jones. £1 2s. 6d., costs 53.: P. R. Russell and Co., Ltd., 7. William Hart, £51 3s. Bd.. costs £3 155.; Charlotte Treadwell v. Mrs. Mary Evans, £8 135., costs Bs.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. L. E. Montgomerio, £8 ss. 6d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; City Council v. Andrew Joseph Farmer, £17 13s. 2d., costs 155.; Goodwill, Johnson and Co. v. Bert. Power, £1 145., costs ss. In a judgment summons case, Simeon 'Maokecknie was ordered to pay Caroline Craig the sum of £16 13s. 4d., by instalments of £1 7s. per month. In the case of Edward E. Brown against Andrew Gibson Taylor, judgment was given for plaintiff for possession of a tenement, with costs il

9s ' Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., delivered judgment in tho case of O. Tilliard Natusch and Sons v. John Routley, a claim of £71 17s. 61. for services rendered. Plaintiff was awarded £1(, together with £10 10s. paid into court, and costs £3 11s.