MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 265, 3 August 1921, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE, CIVIL AND BY-LAW CASES The police business in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday was taken by Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M. Thomas W. Vernon was charged that on July IS he stole one cart, saddle, and breechin. value £l2, the property of the Automatic Bakeries, Ltd. On tho application of Acting-Chief Detective Andrews. he was remanded to August 9. For drunkenness. Minnie Pomeroy was fined 10s.. in default forty-eight hours in gaol, and Peter P. Murphy was fined 205.. with the option of three days’ imprisonment. CIVIL BUSINESS — Mr. E. Page, S.M., heard the civil eases, and gave judgment for plaintiff \ by default in the following:—Louisa F. Fabian v. Alfred J. Mills, £2l 6s. 6d., costs 413 25.; Viceroy Toa Co. v. W. Vincent, costs only, 195.; H. L. Cummings (suing on behalf of tho Crown) v. J. IL

Fuller, £1 10s., costs 12a.; Charles F. Pattie v. A. Armstrong, .£5 55., costs £1 fis. 6d.; P. Hayman and Co. v. H. Hodgkinson, £53 65., costs £i 12s. 6d.; Reginald Collins, Ltd., v. L. Peel Walker, £8 10s., costs £1 ss. 6d.; Radford and Co. v. W. L. Nott, £l5 23., costs £2 14s.j Magnus. Sanderson and Co., Ltd., v. F. O’Sullivan, £94 6s. 10d., costs £5 75.; Citizens’ Loan and Discount Co. v. F. Keen. .£l3 Ba., costs £2 165.; Paramount Service v. J. Reid, .£ll6 ss. 10d., cos+T £6 Bs.; Fox Film Corporation v. R. Steele. £2l 6s. 10d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., v. Benjamin Hunter and Philip Beere, £2B ss. 10d., costs £3 65.; same v. L. Simmonds, £42 Is. 4d.. costs £i 3j. 6d.; Bannatyne and Hunter, Ltd., v. P. M'Laughlin, £9 16s. Pd.. costs £1 10s. 6d.; J. J. Niven and Co.. Ltd., v. L. Simmonds, £7 55., costs £1 12s._ 6d.; C. Boyle v. Robert Takle, £26 15sl 9d.. costs £3 Is.; Albert Hudson v. I. Johnston. £lO 15s. 2d., costs £2 145.; F. W. Crawford v. J. H. Wood, £l3 2s. 6d.. costs £2 145.; Daniel O’Shea v. W. J. Gibson, £37 12s. 6d., costs £4 Is. 6d.; Rose Greig v. William White, £9 10s., costs 155.; Arthur Bolton v. J. C. Willby. £3 35., costs £1 3s. />d. • On a judgment summons K. M. Pavill was ordered to pay Oscar Jacobsen £l6 6s. forthwith, in default sixteen days’ imprisonment, warrant to be suspended so long as 30s. per month is paid. ■

BY-LAW CASES

Offenders against the by-laws were dealt with bv Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. For driving his motor-car past a •tationary tramcar, Harold R. Peard was fined 20s. and 7s. costs. W. G. Fitzgerald was ordered to pay 7e. costs for leaving his horse and express unattended in Garrett Street. For having no light on his motor-car W. H. Hargraves was fined ss. and 7s. costs. R. Welsby was ordered to pay 19s. costs and expenses for leaving his horso and vehicle unattended in the street. W. Calvan was fined 10s. and 7s. costs for driving his motor-car on the wrong side of Courtenay Place, and a similar penalty was inflicted on him for driving over an intersection at an excessive •peed. For leaving his motor-car unattended in the street. N. B. Chapman was fined ss. and 7s. costs. Cvril Cheeseman was fined ,10s. and 7s. costs for riding his motor-/ycle at an excessive .speed over the intersection of Manners and Willis Streets. For driving a motor lorry without lights on the Hutt Road, Henry Haywood was fined 20s. and 7s. costs. Charles E. King was ordered to pay 7s. costs "for driving a motor-car for hire without being licensed; and J." Leach, for plying for hire with an unlicensed motor-car. was fined ss. and 15s. costs. For having no tail light on his motor lorry, P. Wiltshire was fined ss. and 7s. costs. Mary Deckston, landlady of a house, ,No. 32 Jessie Street, was fined 40s. and costs and expenses £1 16s. for failing to effect repairs to the wash tubs in the house. For evading payment of his tram fare. Charles Edwards was fined 20s. and costs 395. ,