RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 6 December 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R. M.) DRUNKENNESS. Mary Hamilton, Jane M'Leod, and Margaret Wills, notorious drunkards, were each lined 30s, or four days’ imprisonment.—Jno. Wallace, alias O’Halloran, alias Wilson, Annie Hill, and Edward Stratten, each fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment.—Robert M'Comb was discharged. CURIOUS CHARGE. A man named Carter was charged on suspicion of stealing two horses. He was yesterday about to pass through a toll-bar, when the bar-keeper questioned him as to the ownership of the horses. He said he had been entrusted with the care of them by a person whose name he did not know, which exciting suspicion, he was taken into custody. The police discovered the owner of the hor.’cs, and found the man’s story was true. He was discharged. Civil Cases. E. E. Ward v. W. Boucher. —A claim for L 5 Iqs, for professional services. Verdict for the plaintiff by default. Hoperaft v. W. M'Leod.—A claim for LlO, for building two chimneys. Verdict for the plaimiff, L 9 1 Os, there being some trifling work remaining undone. Josh. Davis v. E. Lucas.—A claim for L 4 10s. Verdict for the amount by consent. EJECTMENT. M‘Gregor v. O’Grady.—This was an action to obtain possession of a small section of land on which a building was erected, for which the defendant refused to pay rent or to give up possession. Mr Cook for the plaintiff, Mr Macassey for the defendant. For the defence it was urged that the premises were held under an agreement with Air Todd, the late lessee of the property ; rent had been paid and improvements were made by the occupier; it would therefore be unjust to eject the defendant. From the evidence of Mr A. J. Burns, the owner of the property, it appeared he was not aware of any arrangement made by the former tenant, Todd, to sublet the property in question, and it had not been let with his consent. His Worship considered that the defendant had shown a prhna facie right to possession of the land in question, and dismissed the case.