MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES

Messrs. G. Anyon and I. Salek, J.P-. S > dealt with the police cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Peter Butler, alias Chiiwey, a labourer (aged 51), who admitted the theft, oi a pair of boots valued at £1 2s. Gd-u property of the Economic Shoe Store, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Chief-Detective Ward stated that accused was at P*esent undergoing a term of lourteen days imprisonment for the theft of another pair of boots last Thursday. William Hopkins (aged 34), who pleaded guilty before Mr. E. Page, S.M., to a charge of attempting to .-oinmit suicide by cutting an artery in Lis wrist on October 31. was convicted tml ordered to come up for sentence when .■ailed upon within twelve months. Accused, who stated I hat he had been i l inking very heavily about the time he tried to take his- life, was also erdered to pay the sum of £8 15s. for medical expenses incurred during his ’lay in hospital. CIVIL LIST.

Judgment for plaintill by default was given by Mr. E. Page, S.AI., in the following undefended civil eases: — Jack Jacobus v. V. Wolf, J'2, tosts Bs.; A. Murdoch and Co. v. Stuart Brown McDonald, J 222 Bs. 4d., costs Al 4s. 6d.; Commissioner of faxes v. Percy Cogger, ,t. 3 Is 3d., costs Bs.; William Henry Bates v. Grace Mather (separate estate), £W, costs £3 95.; Midlane Bros. (N.Z.) Ltd. v. 1.. Doubleday, J? 1 10s. 3d., costs 125.; Commissioner of Taxes v. Jacob Dumb, £lO 10s., costs .£1 Js.; Wellington Plumbers' and Gastitters (inion of Workers v. John J. Birt, £~ Us., costs 10s.; Wairarapa Farmers ’Cooperative Association Ltd. v. R. J. King, £l5 ss. 10d., costs i'3; G. 11. Thornton and .Co. v. E. J. Culliford, A'l 15s. 2d., costs 411 3s. fid ; Hope Gibbons Ltd. v. E. M. Wicken, A'2o 17s. 3d., costs £1 Ills.; A. Fieldhouse v. A. E. Whiteman. =£Bs, costs .£5 Os. fid.; Kirkcaldie and Stains Ltd. v. Mrs. M. E. Clark" (separate estate), <£1!) 135., cosis .£3 Bs.; Kirkcaldic and Stains Ltd. v. R. Phelan, .£7 12s. lid., costs All 10s. Gd.; Kirkealdie and Sta:ns Ltd. v. A. 11. Hanlon, £3 55., costs £1 10s. (id.; R. J. Plank v. C. D. Hyndman, £l5. costs £2 Ils.; J. S. Burkitt v. J. Bennett, £6 125., costs £1 10s. (id.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty, Ltd. v. A. M. Wells. £9. costs £1 13s. (id.; Wellington. Wholesale Merchants’ Employees Industrial Union of Workers v. L. Webb. .£1 18s.. costs 95.; George Thompson v.' Eric Odlin. £lO. costs £1 Ils. fid.; National Cash Register Co. of Australasia. I.fd. v. A. E. Miles, £B5, costs £5 2s. fid.; Derbyshircs (N.Z.) Ltd. v.‘ C. Macrae (separate estate), £7 13s. 3d., costs 175.; Derbvshires (N.Z.) Ltd. V. G. 0. Tate. £2 7s. 3d., 'Osts 175.; Eugene Spitz and Co., Ltd.,.v, M J. McCarthy, £fi Bs.. costs- £1 Us. fid.; E. J. Fcarn v. Arthur Cecil Dailey, £5, costs £| Bs. fid.; Hewitt Motors Ltd. v. J. Cross, £9 Ifis. fid., costs £1 Ids. (id.: Henry Turney v. Mrs I. I. Cusack, £l9 Ss. Id’., costs £2 175.; Fitzgerald Molar Service T.td. v. IV. Hayes, £1 55., costs Bs.

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