MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 75, 22 December 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with the police cases in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Samuel Venton, a greaser, and Henry Day, fireman, were each fined 20s. ,in default foriy-eight hour.;' imprisonment, for using threatening bohaviour in Lambton Quay whereby a breach of the poace was occasioned. For'drunkenness Miriam Patricia Seeker and Henrick Hanson were cach fined 10s. _ t William Henry Grant (for whom Mr. C. A. L. Tread well appeared) pleaded guilty to the : theft at Miramar of. one wallet and in money, the pruper'.y of Charles S. Allen. The latter, a carponter, was at work at Miramar, and tho accused, who knew Allen, went out to see him. During tho temporary absence of the complaiiuit ihe accused searched the room, and made away with, tho goods. Grant electcd to be dealt with summarily, and was sentenced to twelve months' reformative .treatment.

CIVIL CASES. Mr. W. G. Hiddell, S.M., dealt with tho civil business, and gave judgment for plaintiff in tho following undefended oases:—George Bradley v. AY. Pratt, Jill 10s. 3d., costs JI2 175.; Uadley and Co. v. Fred Murray, J3 lis. 10d., costs M 165.; Hutcheson,' Wilson and Co., Ltd., v. C. K Pearson, Jt'4 l l7s. 4d., costs il 10s. Gd.; Dunlop, ltubber Co., Liid., v. David E. Porter, ,£7O 45., costs i's 35.; Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd., v. W. If. Cook, las., costs 10s.; saino v. E. Madsen, .£2 12s. 6(1.. costs .£I 13s. 6d.; Hope Gibbons, Soil, and J. 1). Clarkson, Ltd., v. F. A. Kennard and Son, i!ls 12s. 10d., costs .£1 Bs.; Fitzgerald arid Pcarce, Ltd., v. C. Oolierty, 7s, 6d., co.-ts Bs.; New Zeakind Exprres Co., Ltd., v. J. Quinn, jCS 175., costs £1 10s: 6d.; N./». liubber Pmducts, Ltd., v. Alexander Ji. I'a'.itiean, ,i(i L's., costs .Xil 55.; same v. Alfred H. Baker, J125 7s. 5(1.," costs 1 £1 10s.; same v. Alexander M'Millan, 5:-., costs .tl 6s. (id.; eamo v. Tibby and Macdonald, JcV 'Is., costsJGl ICS.; same v. James Elliolt, J!SO lis. 9d„ co.3'.fe -I"2 10s.; E. lleynolds and Co., Ltd., v. Automatic Service Co., .£lls 14s. 10d.,' costs' '.£2 10s.;-Charles AV. Smith v. Henry Taylor,'. .F.i 10s., costs Jil 6a. 6d.; Carrie Stevenson v. Te Henlieu Tukino, ,£S 155., cos fc .£1 15s. 6d.; F. Lamberg v. Thomas l'risk, XlO ss. Id., costs i' 2 Ms.; Joseph Angus v. Harold Oliver. .£1 10s., costs D. Mil'igiui v. T. J. Levett, .£l2 12s.,'costs J22 14s.