MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 219, 10 June 1921, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL BUSINESS Tho police business in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday was taken by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Frederick Lyncss, about 80 years of age, was charged with being a rogue in that ho was found begging aims in Cuba Street on Wednesday. Tho accused pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspeotor Willis said that this was the man’s 1.35 th offence; apparently nothing could bo done for him, for non© of th© institutions would have him. Lyncss was sent to prison for three months. ■William Joseph Crew, Alfred Weldman, 'Walter Davis, Alfred Holman, and William H. Crumpton, members of the stokehold crew of the e.s. Orari, pleaded guilty to being absent from the vessel without leave. They were each ordered to forfeit two days' pay and to be returned to the vessel.

Joseph Patrick Moran was fined se. for drunkenness, and 10s. for committing a breach of his prohibition order.

CIVIL CASES

Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with the civil business, and gave judgment for plaintiff in tho following undefended cases: —Commercial Agency and E. W. Mills and Co. Ltd. v. 'Walter Platt, £’34 175., costs £4 3s. Cd.; Commercial Agency v. H. Smith. £l3 Gs. 3d., costs £2 145.; E. Reynolds and Co. Ltd. v. Wanganui Motor Co. and Thomas E. Crocker, .£B9 175., ©oats £‘s 10s.; Commercial Agency and E. W. Mills and Co. Ltd. v. A. Burdon, £B9 10s. 4d., costs £5 2s. Gd.; Lawrence arid Hanson Electric Co. -Utd’ v. A. Cooper, £45 9s. Id., costs £4 4s. Gd.; National Cash Registry Co. Ltd. vI .eat her by Bros., £7 10s., costs £1 Ils. Cd.; H. R. Stephens v. G. Sievers, £3 7s 3d., costs £1 Gs. Gd.; R. Alexander v. F. A. Sims, £l5 155., costs £2 145.; Commercial Agency and Bing, Harris, and Co., Ltd., v. P. M'Laughlan, £4 Us., costs £1 3s. 6d.; George Pudney v. J. DM'Coll. £1 10s., costs Ils.; Oscar G. Jacobson v. K. M. Pavitt, £l3 125., costs <£2 145.; Commercial Agency Ltd. v. 1. McLaughlin, «£3O Is., costs Is. Gd.; J. W. Mathews and Co. v. J. Leach, costs only 10s.; same v. 11. H. Taylor, £2 25., COSts £1 3S. 6d. irr-IT In a judgment summons case, William Alexander Morris was ordered to pay William Williams £l7 os. 4d. forthwith, in default 17 days' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended so long as he pays £3 ner month. George Smith was ordered to deliver possession of a tenement to Thomas Ballinger and Co., Ltd., by Juno 24, and to pay' £9 and costs £2 7s.

A TRANSACTION IN BOOTS.

Charles J. Ward Limited (Mr. A. W. Blair) proceeded against Roy J. Denre, of Devon Street, New Plymouth, boot importer (Mr. R. Kennedy) to recover £177 135., being the alleged agreed price of 114 pairs of boots ordered by the defendant from’ th© plaintiffs on October 27, 1920, and duly delivered to the defendant.

Tho defence was that there was no sufficient note in writing signed by the defendant ns required by the Act. It was alleged that there was a distinct arrangement as to fluctuations in prices which was not. mentioned in the documents put in by plaintiff, namely, that in tho event of tho Board of Trad© s prices for "standardised” footwear being reduced the defendant would hove the benefit. It was further submitted that tho defendant not having accepted the delivery of tho goods tho plaintiff s remedy, if there had been n binding contract, would have been to sue only for damages suffered nnd not for tho total amount involved in the contract. The Magistrate reserved his decision.