RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2299, 19 September 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Dav. {Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) Civil Casks. Ofai/o J'jaili / Time* Company v. Charles Douglass.— L 3 Ga lOd. Judgment by default. Watson and Cow v. John Stewart.—L7. Same. The cases of Pledger v. Kelsie, and Brown and Schmidt v. Taylor, were dismissed for non-appearance, A«>.li-J/f. Alexander Shaw v. Arch. M‘D«nald was a charge of assault. The parties reside &t the Halfway Bush, and arc neighbors. On the 13th a calf belonging to the complainant fpund its way into defendant’s paddock, and the efforts ,yf the former to recover it led to

the assault, which was clearly proved. Defendant endeavored to show that the blow received by complainant was accidentally received—“ that the wee bit of claddie he held in his hand by some means turned round, and touched Shaw in the cheek a very slight blow.” M‘Donald wished to call his wife to prove this ; but the information given by the Magistrate that the law did not allow of this being done, did mt give satisfaction to defendant’s better half, who said “ it didn’t use to be so.” M'Donald was lined 40s and costs.