RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2815, 26 February 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tats Day. (Before A. G. Strode, Es;p, R.M.) Civil Cases. Fetherstone v. Ryder. —Claim L 29 os, money lent. Mr Stout for plaintiff; Mr Harris for defendant. Judgment for plaintiff for anr-mut claimed, together with costs Uix v. E. R. Ridley. -10s, for lirewood supplied. Judgment fur the plaintiff by default, with costs. Brown v. Gray. Id!) Is 7d, for groceries. Mr Harris for the plaintiff. Judgment by default for the plaintiff for the amount, with costs. Favciitch v. ( x )uln. -LI .‘ls, for rent of stabl-s. 'i'he defendant paid ISs into Court. Judgment fur the plaintiff, LI Is, each party to pay his own costs. Patrick v. Tonderbold.—L.’i 3s Gd, for biead. The amount was admitted. Judgment by consent for the plaintiff, with costs, to be prtid by instalments at 7s 6d per week.

Hagan v. Butterfield.—L2o, a claim for damages for injury to the plaintiff’s daughter through being bitten by the defendant’s dog. Mr Stout for the plaintiff; Mr Barton for the defendant. From the evidence of the plaintiff, it appeared that he lived in a lane oft' George street, was a widower, and had a daughter, who kindled fires, made t:-a, occasionally cooked for the family, and overlooked two younger children. She had been suffering for the last t m days through having been bitten on the aim by a dog on the 9th hist. Hearing her cry, he went out and saw Mr Dickinson holding a half-bred retriever, and Mary Jarvey with his daughter in her arms. The dog was chained in a corner of Mr Beck’s yard. He could go live feet into the lane. On ixamining the girl’s arm, he found there were nine wounds, some of them very deep. He took her to the Hospital and had them dressed He had to s:t up the whole night to attend the ai in, and was absent from his work on ■' aturday to attend to her. He saw Mr Bntterlield, and said if he would destroy the dog he would not proceed further ; but he refused. In reply to Mr Barton, the plaintiff said the place where the dog was fastened was ten or twelve yards from the house, The child was cpieslioned, ami said she was nob teasing the dog that day, although she had occasionally done so. Sergeant Neale saw the the girl cm the afternoon of the 9ih. She

was bitten in the upper and lower part of the left arm.—H, Dickinson; living in the same lane, said the dog was chained at the edge of a fence on the side of the lane. He heard a scream, and Mary Jarvey called to tell him the dog had attacked th«i child. He rushed out and saw her down, with the dog worrying her. He took the dog off her, and the animal attacked him, but did not injure him. He had seen the child, with others teaze the dog, Mary Jarvey *aid the dog was so chained that he could go three or four feet into the right of way. She saw him worrying the child which ho had on the ground, and was shaking her as if he were fighuing with another dog. Dicken-on rescued the child, and she lifted it from the ground.—Thos. Butterfield, the defendant, said the dog was a setter, and remarkably quiet. He worked in Mr Beck’s workshop, an I had left his work many times to prevent Hagan’s three children teasing the dog. It was within a six feet fence, and the children pulled a paling nearly e(f the fence and teased the do_' with and provoking noises. He offered the dog to Hagan to do what he liked with, but he refused, unless expenses were paid.—-In answer to Mr Stout: He never saw the children tease the dog after it was removed to the place where it was then chained He removed it because Mr Ha\ threatened to poison the dog for having bitten his child. Ev dence was given t> shew that the dog was quiet and harmless. —His Worship said there was evidence that the dog was mischievous, through having had to be removed from one place to another. Judgm nt for plaintiff, L 3 and costs. Stcntiford v. De Burgh.—Ll If) i. The defendant admitted two weeks’ rent, and stated that he returned a hand-saw, a tin dish, and a girl’s hat, the value of which formed part of the claim. Judgment for the ; plaintiff, LI 5s and costs.