RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
This Day. (Before A. G. Strode, Esq., R.M.) Civil Cases. Brown v. Poperill.- A claim for L 4 13s. Judgment by consent, (The amount to be paid by instalments of 7s 6d a week. Tima. Everitt v. Ellen Potter. —A claim for L 5 Ss, balance of wages due to sou of the plaintiff. Mr Waid for the defence. The couns'd for the defence stated that the minor ought to have sued ajiduot his father, ami further that if the father sued, and the the money was due to him, having been bankrupt in the interval, the money was not due to him, but his trustees. The magistrate ruled that the case must proceed. The wife of the plaintiff proved the arrangement made by the defendant for engaging the services of her son, a hoy of 13 years of age. Mr Ward put the plaintiff into the box to prove that he was bankrupt in January last, and that between that time and May, the amount of the boy’s wages was due to his trustees, as he had not sued as guardian but as a principal. The plaintiff accepted a non-suit. Mr Ward was refused costs.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2126, 28 February 1870, Page 2
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199RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2126, 28 February 1870, Page 2
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