RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2966, 21 August 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

This Day. (Before 1. N, Watt, Esq., R.M.) Civil Cases. Pratt v, Waddell, L2O, balance of account for purchase of laud. Mr M'Kcay for plaintiff; Mr Howorth for defendant. Mr Howorth applied for an adjournment, in order that the evidence of defendant might be taken at Reefton. Adjourned to October 16th, defendant paying the costs of the day’s hearing.

Humflray v. M'Kenzie.—L4 os, for printing. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs. Scott v. Gilligau.—Claim of L2O, for damage done to plaintiff’s horse through negligence and ill-treatment—Mr M'Keay for plaintiff; Mr Shapter for defendant.—Mr M'Keay stated the case. The defendant hired from plaintiff a chesnut gelding, which was a very good horse, and worth L3O, The horse was hired for two days and kept for four, and when returned was found to be in a dying state.—Henry Scott said he lent the defendant, who was an hotel-keeper at Palmerston, a horse on the 10th of July last. Defendant said he required a horse to get to Palmerston that night, and he lent the horse in question. When the animal was returned to him it was in a dying state, and wounded in several places. He was obliged to call in a veterinary surgeon to attend to the horse, who had sent in a bill for L 4 17s Gd. He did not think the horse would now fetch more than L 8 at a saleyard,—Samuel Slessinger, veterinary surgeon, said he examined the horse previous to the 14th of July on behalf of a gentleman, when the horse was in very good condition, and he offered L 24 for the horse. When he was called by Mr Scott to see the horse,' he had a doubt as to whether it would live till the following morning. In cross-examina-tion witness stated when he saw the horse it was suffering most from exhaustion, but symptoms of inflammation still remained. He treated the horse, and when he last saw it he thought it might bo worth LJS. —Mr Shapter, for the defence, thought the plaintiff had not shown affirmative evidence that there had been negligence.—His Worship

said ho was not satisfied with the evidence, and dismissed the case without prejudice. [Left sitting.]