RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. THIS DAY. (Before C.D. R. Ward, Esq, R.M.)

Evening Post, Issue 117, 26 June 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. THIS DAY. (Before C.D. R. Ward, Esq, R.M.)

F. Heywood, John Garrett, Andrew Seaward, Henry Smith, Charles Price, James Callaghan, and Charles Copelinp were fined Ss each for being drunk, with the alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment, with hard labour. Death v« By croft —Henry Death sued Richard Bycroft for .£23 10s, rent of a paddock let to defendant. Mr. Borlase appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Button for defendant. Henry Death, sworn, said—l am tenant of (0 iiejand at the Hutt,which I let to Bycroft, who runs cows there at a certain «urn per week, till February, 1853. I got the money with a great deal of difficulty, taking £20 instead of £2211s ; and afterwards agreed to to let him the paddock at 6s a week. There were was no written agreement between us. February, 1863, I received a letter from Mr. Bycroft, in which he agreed to take the paddock, but I did not keep it. Mr. Bycroft occupied the paddock from 28 th February, 1863, to December, 1864. My tenancy expired on 24th December laßt. I claim £28 with a deduction of £5 which was paid on account. Cross examine I—ll —l cannot tell anything übout the letter which I destroyed. Mr. Bycroft has paid me £30 altogether. The receipt produced is in my hand writing and is for £4. About March, 1863,1 was in the road with my uncle and Bycroft, and asked Bycroft to settle the account. He said if 1 would deduct something from my bill of £22 lls he would do it. I said I would take £20. He said it would be more convenient to have the paddock to himself, and I said I could not let him have the whole. I proposed that defendant should pay me 6s a we ek for the paddock,and he accepted it. Robert Death corroborated the evidence of the plaintiff. Richard Byoroft, defendant, sworn, said — Some few years ago I gisted some cattle on plaintiff's land. I never had any agreement with him up to 21st Sept., 1863. About that time, I said I would give him £20 bonus, and £20 a year rent; the bonus to settle al accounts between us. I afterwards wrote a letter to Mr. Death, dated sth September. la the book produced is a memorandum of the letter being sent, which was made at the time. I met Mr. Death afterwards, and he said he would accept my terms. The letter confirmed the offer I had made on 21st September. The Magistrate gave judgment for 6s a week from 21st September, 1863, to 24th December, 1864, less £5 received on account, making altogether £14 10s and costs.