MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BY-LAY AND CIVIL CASES Mr. J. H. Salmon dealt with by-laws cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. For exceeding the speed limit, Emil Frederick McSweeney, Gordon Hope Allan. and William Gardiner were each fined £2 and costs 7s. ’ Negligent driving cost Alfred John Severn £2 and costs 7s. Emil Frederick McSweeney was also fined £1 and costs 7s. for driving on the wrong side of the street, and Ernest George Burling was fined .hl and costs 7s. for failure to keep to the left. Claude W. Ellison was fined 10s. for not having lights on his car, and Joseph Patrick O’Hara was convicted of having an unregistered car and ordered to pay costs. CIVIL BUSINESS Judgment for plaintiff by default was given ny Mr. W. G. Riddell in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the following undefended civil cases:— James Patrick Monaghan v. B. J. Kelly, £4; Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. R. Stewart, £5 10s., costs £1 10s. 6d.; Dominion Rubber Co. v. B. Ryde, £3 4s. 9d., costs £1 ss. 6d.; J. S. Elliott v. P. Cogger, £2l, costs £4 2s. 6<l-; J. T. Lewis v. J. T- Ellis, £29 Bs, costs £4 Is. Gd.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and James Johnston v. M.'G. B. Harvey, £l2, costs £3 25.; A. Hatrick and Co., Ltd., v. R. Climo, £2 14s-, costs £1 6s. Gd.; Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., v. Arthur Clark, £143 ss. 6d., costs £7 4s. 6d.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and E. J. Hyams, .Ltd., v. H. W. Pullen, £lO, costs £1 12s. 6d.,- same v. C. D. Wilson, 2s. 9d., costs £2 35.; W. Q. Benning v. L. Ward, £3 9s. sd„ costs £1 Bs. 6d.; British Textiles, Ltd., v. Mary Millward (separate estate), £27 7s. lid., costs £2 35.; K. W. Skoglund v. L. O. Israelsbn, £1 155., costs Bs.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and James Johnston v. P. S. Bdndall, £3 155., costs £1 3s. 6d.; same v. W. J. Tasker, £3 10s., costs £1 3s. Gd.; shme v. L. A. Leydon, £4 10s., costs £1 Ils. Gd.; same v. C. H. Payne, £5, costs £1 3s. Cd.; same v. L. Gray, £4, costs £1 3s. 6d.; Andrews and Jackson v. R. M. Stewart, £3 Bs. 6d„ costs £1 3s. Gd. ; Commercial Agency. Ltd., and B. J. Hyams, Ltd., v. C. O. Hawke. £8 ss. 8d„ costs £1 10s. 6d.; same and ,E. WMills and Co., Ltd., v. F. Prentice, £5 9s. Gd., costs £1 10s. 6d.; same and James Johnston v. E- Scott, £6 10s„ costs £1 13s. 6d,; same v. John Christopher Gallagher, £7 10s., costs £1 10s. 6d.; same v. A. S. Thompson, £6 6s„ cpsts £2 10s. 6d.; Wellington Hospital Board y. Walter Andrews, £l4 18s„ costs £2 155.; Commercial Agency. Ltd., and Inglis Bros, and Co., Ltd.. V. G. Hall, 17s. id., costs £2 35.; K. W. Sko/.und v. Miss J. McGinity, £4 9s. Gd., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Winifred Bruce v. Mary Flynn, £1 18s. Gd., costs 95.; E. J. Hyams, Ltd., v. C. Kennedy, £4 18s. 2d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; James Johnston v. E. Treson, £1 55,. costs Bs.; Commercial Agency. Ltd., v. R. Stewart. £5 10s., costs £1 10s. 6d.; W. A. Arnold, ltd., v. H. Niclioll, £5 125., costs £1 11s. Gd.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., v. H. Berg, £l3 Is. Bd., costs £2 145.; H. J. MeDuff and Co. v. Mrs. N. Lypus (separate estate), £2O os. 3d., costs £4 IGs.; Veitch and Allan v. J.’ W. Kavanagh. £2 10s,, costs £1 7s. 6d. On a judgment summons, William •’•illins was ordered to pay James Johnston £3 12s. by November 25. in default three days’ imprisonment; Theodore Melville Jennens to pay Kathleen Davidson £2B Bs. by December 11. in default fourteen days’ imprisonment; Charles Bolton to pay E. J. Speight £« 2s. Gd. by November 25. in default seven days’ imprisonment; J. F. MoNicoll to pay Walshaw and Lears £5 Is. by November 25, in default four days imprisonment; Thomas Lloydl to pay Mary A. Higgins £2B 3s. 6d. at the rate of £1 a mopth-

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