MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with polico eases at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. .. Un charges of theft of an overcoat valued at <£5, tho property, of George Kingstone, and .(heft of other articles of clothing, valued 1 at JU2O, tho property of Joseph Farris Minnings, Joseph James (jlarr and James Thomas Corbott wcro both remanded till August 27. Bail was allowed in tho case of Carr in tho turn of JIOO, but in the case of Corbett it was refused, as H was stated to bo n military deserter. For dTunkeaness Richard Hammond Sidney Wilkes was fined <£t and Catherine O'Keefo was fined £1 ■ A lino of in default seven days' im- ' prisonmsnt, wtas imposod. on. James Francis M'Millan, who was charged with committing a nuisanco at the Basin He, serve. For drunkenness he was fined 10s. CIVIL BUSINESS. RESERVED JUDGMENT. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., dnliverdd reiervod judgment in the case Osmond Disley, fanner, of South Karori, v. Eavid Stephens, dairyman, 'of Kelburn, a claim for .£6 1-is. Oil., as interest in respect of an unpaid balance of purchase moneys in connection with the sale ol a business hv tho plaintiff to lite defendant. After reviewing, tho legal arguments, His Worship held that interest could bo claimod, and gave judgment for the plaint id' accordingly. At the hearing Mr. If. J. Crombio appeared for tho plaintitf and Mr. 0. 0. Mazengurb for the defendant.