RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT This DAY.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1953, 9 August 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT This DAY.

(Before A. Chetham-Strode, Esq., E.M.) A ROW ON THE JETTY. Richard Mills and James Harris were charged by the police with fighting on the jetty. The nuai are porters, and Hands had a quantity of game hand, cl to him for delivery by one of the Northern steamers. The right of possession was disputed by Mills and the two commenced struggling to throw each other overboard. Harris succeeded, and Mills would have been drowned had he not been rescued by the bystanders. They were each fined 10s or 24 hours’ imprisonment. DRUNKARDS. Mary Cameron, on bail for this offence, was fined lt)s ; and Thomas Ker, having been in confinement since Saturday night, was dismissed. Cim Cases. Friedlitch v. Williams, an undefended claim for 1.4 7s Cd. Judgment for the plaintiff by default. Robertson v. Hodge.—A claim for LI 10s, for a load of straw, alleged to have been delivered to James Ru sol, by his order , who leased some cows off the defendant Mr Hodgkins for the defence. Russel gave evidence that the cows used the straw, that the defendant’s mother had been accustomed to pay for straw consumed by them, and tied the defendant after she died, said he would not alter the arrangement. For the defence it was maintained that the straw was never ordered. The Magistrate considered that the person who used the straw should have been sued. Judgment for the defendant.

Hannan v. Young.—The plaintiff claimed L;l alleged to have been deposited with the defendant’s wife. The plaintiff, a foreigner, said lie spent L2 5s in the ho 'SC of the defendant in nobbl rs, and then Mrs Young asked him if he had any more money, for if so ho had bettor deposit it with her. He gave her three sovereigns, in consideration of which Mrs Young agreed to supply him with nohblers. He became sober, and then asked her for the money, when she denied having had it. Mr Young, the wife of the defendant, denied having received the money, and made a statement of the circumstances, y which it .appeared that the plaintiff’was drunk at the time wli n the alleged transactions took place. Judgment for the detenu ant.

E. B Cargill v. Milligan and Wilson —A claim for rent to the amount of Ll4 7s (id, for land in Hawkeshury. Two pounds were received on account. Judgment for the plain tiff by default for 1.12 7s (id Feldhe.im, Jacobs, and Co. v. Thoms, L 9 Os ltd The claim was undefended, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff'by default.

Braid and Dooley v. Cad/.o—A claim for LG 10s, for work and labor done. Mr Wilson for the plaintiffs, and Mr Huggitt for the defendants. The plaintiffs sought to recover LG 10s, on an agreement by which the plaintiffs undertook to sow for the defendant a certain quantity of land with oats and grass, and chip it in at L2 per acre. The quantity agreed upon was 10 acres, more or less, and it wns to be sown wh'ii cleared. The land was not cleared so as to enable the plaintiffs to go on with the wo. k, and they brought an action to receive payment for the amount of work performed. The plaintiff Dooley took the place of one Pro tor. who pave evidence as to the nature of the agreement, and confirmed the evidence of the plaintiffs.—Mr Haggitt said he wou d not take nonsuit points, as there teas a g>od defence on the merits of the case. The quantity of laud sown was not six acres, but somewhere about four acres and twenty poles, and further that the work had not been don according to agreement, and that the plaintiffs had sown an excessive quantity of oats per acre. A witness named Mitchell had measured the ground sown, the area of which wns four acres and twenty perches —Davidson, a contractor, confirmed the measurement given by Mitchell, and said the ground was not so cleared of jags as to make it possible to mow the crop.—The defendant Cadzo said the plaintiffs agreed to cut the small stuff off the ground so as to render it possible to cut the crop with a scythe. This had not been done, and, consequently, he would not pass the work. The plaintiff had sown about 25 bushels of oats on the ground.—The Magistrate said that the evidence for the defence shewed that care had been taken to measure the land, and that he was of opinion the work had not been done according to agreement, so that on a fair estimate the plaintiffs had been overpaid. Judgment for the defendant.

Kllen Black v. Purdy.—The plaintiff sued the defendant for two week’s and LI .‘ls for board and lodging. Mr "Wilson for the plaintiff; Mr Haggitt for the defence. The ca e was a dispute respecting wages The plaintiff' entered the defendant’s service on a Saturday evening as cook. The wages to be L 45 a year, subject to a week’s notice or a week’s wages. On the Tuesday morning she complained she was not able to do the work, and in the course of some altercation with Mrs Purdy, she said that on payment of two days’ wages she would leave. Mrs Purdy agreed and she left. The Magistrate thought there was no evidence in support of the claim, and gave judgment for the amount paid into court —two day’s wages. Hobertsou v. Grant. —A claim for LI 6 for a man-:, harness, &C. The case was unde-feu-ied, and judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount. Ann Laurie v. Ellen Murdoch, Mr Wilson for the defendant. The plaintiff made a claim for wages as domestic servant and for sundry articles of clothing, pawn tickets, and a pound alleged to be owing for a brooch. The defendant brought evidence to prove that the plaintiff was never engag das servant, that she hud been received into the house to give her a home, that the money for the brooch had been paid, and that she could have the other articles on sending for them. Case dismissed.