MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr. W. G. Kiddell, S.M., presided at the. Magistrate's Court yesterday, and dealt with the police and civil cases. An elderly man named George Galloway pleaded guilty to breaking a pano of glass valued at 125., the property of the Kev Zealand Government. Inspector Marsack stated that tho defendant went to the Mount Cook watchhouso on the morning of May 9, and asked to bo locked up as he: had no means of support. While the wahchhouse-keeper went out to veport the matter to the station sergeant, and the man was in charge of Constable Fawcett, Galloway took a picco of casting Iron) his pocket and deliberately threw it at tho. window. Galloway was sent to prison for 14 days. For insobriety,.a first offender was convicted and discharged.

CIVIL CASES. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following cases: Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Briscoe «nd Co., Ltd., v. Richard Wbyte, .£5 195., costs 235. 6d.; same and Motor Supplies, Ltd., v. F. itaxton, =£5 Js. 9d., costs 235. Gd.; Charles Hill and -Sons v. Captain W. Thring, Bs. lid., costs os. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. In a judgment summons case Te Koro,neho was ordered to pay Wilhelm Farquhar Eggers M ss. by May 30, or go to gaol for four days. FILM HIRE CLAIM The New Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd., represented by Mr. J. Morrison, proceeded against G. L. Johnson, of tho People's Picture Palace, for whom Mr. A. w. Blair appeared, to recover .Bit) 13s. 6d., in respect to film hire from July, 1917, to February, 1916, printing, and tho difference in the estimated damage through "the destruction of a film. After hearing evidence ' judgment was given for plaintiff for .GlB 15s. 7d., with costs ;t2 6s.