RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2595, 12 June 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.)

Macdonald v, W. Barnes, Ll4 10s for rent pf a hpusc. Judgment by default, for plainfiff, wjtli costs.

Garden v. Juo. Grant, LI 12s, 3d for balance of account. Judgment by default for the plaintiff with posts. Goodeson v. Grennan, L2 12s 6d. The plaintiff said on the sth inst he left a pig with a person named Brady, which was sold by somebody else to the. defendant. In the evening he met Grennan driving the pig, from whom he demanded it, but'defendant refused to give it up. The story was a somewhat confused one of a northern bred pig that would not go to the Provincial Yard to be sold, but jumped overboard, swam away, and took to steeple-chasing through mud and mire towards theraceconrse. Being a tempting pig, Goodison and Grennan gave chase, when it fell into the hands of the latter, who tied a rope about it and gave it in charge to Brady, at St. Kilda, to have and hold on his behalf. In the meantime the defendant appeared and demanded the pig, which was given up to him on Brady receiving a receipt. Defendant conveyed tlie pig, bound before and behind, to Mr Braithwaite, who Huformed him he had sold the pig to the plaintiff for ss. Defendant having employed men on speculation to help him to catch the prisoner, determined not to deliver the pig as directed, but, to reimburse himself, decided to sell, but could not get a sovereign for it. His Worship never heard of such a case of gross impertinence. The pig was at large, and he who first caught it could make terms with the owner. It was the the coolest act he ever heard of, to go and take possession of the pii* after having been caught by another. Judgment for plaintiff, L2 Is and costs.

Esquilnnt v. Hamm on. 9s for balance of account for stationary. The defendant pleaded a set off to a greater amount—to the amount of L 3. The plaintiff, as against the set oil', put in a discharge in bankruptcy, ami further pleaded that the work charged for was not done for him but for John McKillar. Judgment for the defendant.