RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 815, 15 December 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before the Hon. A. C. Strode, R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Patrick Hastie, Tlios. Dawson, Alex. Thomson and William charged with this offence, were each fined 20s, with the usual alternative. STEALING. Bichard alias Wiliiam White (on remand) charged with stealing a -watch from a dwellinghouse at Nelson ■was, upon the application of the Commissioner of Police, further remanded for 7 days. CIVIL CASES. Boyse, Mudie, and Co. v C. G-. Boss and Co. —Claim of £6 5s 3d for timber. A set off was put in for £5 5s for a crank shaft supplied, and 17s 6d was paid into Court. The original claim -was not cLispiitecl., ancL -th-e delivery o£ the shaft being proved, the Magistrate gave judgment for amount paid into Court, with costs. Andrew Johnson v Bichard Patton.—Claim of £l9 19s lid. This was a claim for the amount paid for the purchase of a horse from the defendant, which was zepresented to be his property, but which has since been taken from the plaintiff and given to the rightful owners. The horse in question is the one for which " Billy Kerr the Packer," at the last sessions of the Supreme Court, was tried for stealing, and for which he was convicted and sentenced to two

years' imprisonment. The horse was traced to the present plaintiff's possession, and taken from him by the police authorities, and after the trial, was by the Judge's order given to the rightful owners. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, with costs. J. Vogel and Co. v. C. G. Ross and Co.—claim £ls ls-for advertizing. The defendants pleaded a set off of £4 17s 6d, paid into Court £4 3s 6d, and disputed the balance. The defendants had originally given the an advertisement for three months, agreeing to pay £7 for the same. Before the advertisement ran out they withdrew it, and the plaintiffs charged them the rate which they would have done had it been given only for the short time it appeared. Judgment was given for the amount paid into Court, with costs.

Blyth v. Jones (owners of the lighter Olive Branch), claim of £l9 14s 9d for potatoes. The claim was for loss through the potatoes being being shipped in the Coilingwood for Newcastle in lieu of the Albion for Melbourne. It appeared that the contract had been made with Messrs Berrill and Bond, and not with the plaintiff, and he was nonsuited.

In the following cases judgment b}*- default was given : D. F. Main v. Scanlan and Co., a claim of £8 lGs 4d for professional services ; and Mr Coiisins v. Mary Ann Merrick, a claim of £3 2s 6d for goods.