MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 155, 26 March 1920, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

a •' 0 POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., was on the Bench at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. John Willjam Bawling was charged '' with drunkenness, with resisting Constable Ilealey while in the execution t- of his duty, also with using obscene lan- ; guage. Sub-Inspector Enlerson said 1 the incident occurred at the intersection of Vivian and Taranaki Streets, and that, • the man had not been previously before c the Court. On the charge of drunken--2 ness lie was fined 55., in default _24 ii hours' imprisonment, and on the other 1 two charges, he was fined .£s,'in'respect' .. to each the alternative being 14 days f imprisonment. I David Johnston, n baker, came into the city some weeks ago, spent all his " money, and was reduced to sleeping out. ! Yesterday morning, at nn early hour, He was found sleeping in the tramway ,' . waiting-slied in ! Kent Tc'rracc. 'He was . convicted, anil ordered to come ut> for . sentence when called upon within a • period of twelve mouths. \ , CIVIL CASES. , I Mr. W. C 4. ]ti<idell, S.M., gave judg- ; meiit for pliiintift" in the Mowing un- • defended civil cases:—Hutt Eiver Shingle ' Company v H. M.-.Solwav, <C 59 2s. costs 3s. (id.; Emily Ilinchev v. Thomas Brcedon, .£8 2s. Gd.. costs J!1 Cs'. Gd.j 1 Osmond and Son, New Zealand, Ltd., v. ! E. Shaw, JE-t 135., costs 10s.; Oscar Jacob- ! sen v. j?. Dronfield, ,£1 Is., costs fis.; i Townsend and . Paul, Ltd., v.'W. J. • O'Dwyer, .£B2 19s. 8(1., costs' ,£4 lis. Gd.; 1 E.-W.-, Mill? and Company, Ltd. v. J. 8,. Moir,",£2 35.. Bd., costs 125.; "New ' ! Zealand Times" Company, Ltd., v. Samtiel Ford, <£1 IBs., costs 55.; Hope tiib- , bons, Sons, and J. B..Clarksoii, Ltd., r. ; \V. Jensen, ,£3 Bs. lid., costs 55.; Artliur ■ Miirton Griggs r. Henry Edwards «E6 7s. Gd., costs-.£l 4s. Gd.; "New Zealand Times"'Company, Ltd., v. 11. p. Hunter, .£2- lis.■■ lfld.j costs 195.', ; Kosenberg and Company .v. P. Skelto'n, costs 7s.Commercial Agency, Ltd,, v. A. W. Barr, J.'2 ISs. Gd., costs lis.; E.' M'Pherson v. V. E.' Tremainc. ,£sl 55., costs JC3 19s.' Gd. . ' . In a judgment summons case P. H. Washbourno was ordered to pay J. E. Fitzgerald JBIG" 13s. 4:1. on or before April 15; in -default to undergo fourteen days' imprisonment in New Plymouth gaol. Reserved judgment was giveji by the Magistrate'-in the rase of Picot Bros. v. A; H. Symonds. a clniin for .£SB, balance of account i for goods supplied.' Ilis Worship held that the evidence did not establish- that the goods had. been supplied as if to an agent by Symonds, and nonsuited the plaintiffs, with £2 ,12s. 6d. costs. _Mr. O. C. Mazengarb appeared for •plaintiffs, and Mr. It. Kennedy for the' defendant. '