RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2920, 28 June 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

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

Civil Cases,

Reeves v. Davies,—L6 Is, for board and lodging. Mr Cook for plaintiff. The defendant admitted the debt, and said he would pay lOs per week. Judgment for the amount claimed, together with costs, to be paid by instalments of 10s per week. Reid v. Black,—Lls, for purchase of a horse and keep o£ the same. Mr Stout for plaintiff; Mr Stewart for defendant.—Mr Reid, cabpropi'ietor, said he sold the horse on the Bth of June to defendant for the sum of Ll2. Defendant took delivery of the horse, and said he would pay for it. The same evening, ®n arriving home, he found the horse back again loose in his stable. The extra L 3 was for keep of horse since the sale. In reply to Mr Stewart, witness stated he had not sold the horse upon trial. He had told defendant that the horse was suitable for "his own business of cab-driving.—Alexander Black stated he saw Mr Reid on the morning in question, and he was told by him he had two horses for sale. Witness asked Reid what he wanted for Tom Sinclair’s horse, and Reid replied Ll2. Witness afterwards said he would take the horse and try it, Mr Reid stating that he would guarantee it would do any work witness -.required. On trial he found the horse did not answer.—ln reply to Mr Stout, witness said he knew the horse had been previously in the service of Sinclair, baker. He took the horse back to Mr Reid.—James Black, brother of last witness, said he tried the horse and found it jibbed, and he could not get it along George street. He was present at the negotiation respecting the horse, and asked Reid iu a joke whether the animal was wmth LlO. Reid replied witness might as well say L 5 at ouce. On taking the horse in a spring cart down George street he had nothing in the cart, but he -was obliged to stop several times to allow the horse to get breath.—Donald Ross said he was present at the inspection of the horse, and he.heard Reid say he would guarantee the horse to do defendant all the work required.—His Worship said, according to the evidence of plaintiff, there was a sale, and in according to the evidence on the other side there was not. The witness Ross, however, said he heard Reid state the horse would do the work Black required ; and, moreover, Black stated he took the horse on trial only, and he must give judgment for defendant. S. Bird v. Bcllmain.—lss lid for groceries supplied. Judgment by default for plaintiff.