RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2603, 21 June 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. (Before A. 0. Strode, Esq., E.M.) Civil Casks.

Briscoe and Co, v. Allen. —LII 1* SJ, tor goods sold and delivered. The defendant having scut a cheque for the amount due, judgment was given for the plaintiff for L2 costa.

M'Culloch v. Peyton.- A summons to show cause why the judgment of the Court should not be enforced. The defendant did not appear, and his Worship directed a warrant to be issued to compel his attendance to-morrow morning. M'Oabe v. Sheddon.—LlG Gs, a claim for. wages. Mr Stewart for the defendant; Mr Bathgate for the plaintiff. LI Is was paid into Court. The case was one of dispute.! liability. Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount paid into Court. . Hutchison y. Collie.—Ll, a claim for cash lent. The defendant pleaded not indebted. The plaintiff, it appeared, had bor owed Ll in order to deposit it as stakes for a bet as to whether a boy was son of one of the parties to the bet. This pound was then deposited in plaintiff’s Land again as stakeholder, for both parties, and as he considered tho defendant liad lost, ho paid the stakes over to the winner, John Cochran said that on carting wood into town, defendant had’ made a bet with him that- a boy getting into his cart was his son. He proved by the evidence 61 a schoolmaster he was not,; and

Teceiv-ed the money. The was that his only mistake w3&£aUjog the lad William Cochran instead and that Cochran told him his naiiraj^vas■'pmith. His Worship said the defendant, m®Jsnceived his position. He asked the of a pound without naming the purpose,"‘■and the money was lost. The Court had nothiog to do with the afterpart of the transaction. Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount, with costs.