RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3358, 24 November 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

V * ' Monday, November 24 (Before L N. Watt, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness —John Calvin was fined ss, or twenty-four hours!; William Steele, drunk while in charge of a horse, IDs, or forty eight hours’. Assaulting the Police.— Charles Williams and Robert Blister were charged with assau-ting Constable Duffy while in the execution of his duty.—Constable Huffy stated that about two o’clock this morning he saw the two prisoners lighting iu Clark street. He went up to arrest them, when they resisted, breaking his laut*rn in the scuffle. Eventually, with the aid of another constable, witness took them to the police station Prisoners had no defence, and were fined 10s each and costs, and for breaking the lantern 2s Gd each. CIVIL CASES. Lee vers v. Pinch.-Claim L2 JBs 6dfor skins destroyed. Plaintiff stated that on going lately into his shed twelve sheepskins were missing, and on looking into defendant’s garden he saw a dog tearing them about. Witness afterwards saw defendaut gather up the skins and take them back to the shod, and he tendered him an account for their vaiue. Defendant got some one to value the skins, and witness offered to compromise the matter by giving him them for 30s. Defendant said that on the day in question on leaving home he tied the dog up securely, and therefore, if it bad done the damage some one must have let it loose. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed with costs ; his Worship saying that it was the duty of every person that had a dog to keep him in such a way as not to ciuse annoyance or loss to his neighbors. Judgment was given by default in the following cases : Nicholl v. Clarkson ; claim Ll 2s Gd, for a pair of boots; Thompson v. Lewis : claim LI IS* 61, for boots supplied ; John Turnbull v. Robert Glover : claim 13i, for groceries supplied ; Lyons and Hart v. A. F. Vivian : claim L 4, for dishonored promissory note.