RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3624, 3 October 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

! £ 6 ! • H U 7». m | Friday, October'2. '-£1 j >1 .ai'm. ::.-odrO Oj id, , r |pi;igqqda paid apd.ddr-..' liy.erep.f'. 'I ha was made, up by two? jaftionntij,, 3:00 yard* .of, rihhpm at 0,; and. |728, yards at ld.-TMj Appeared, for ’ plaintiff, and Mr S.topt for defend ants..—Vl r stai jng.plaitiijp s.case, saidihaj - the claim involved a point of laW of sdmuin;. tefest and importance. Some short time ago ’Mr H,ay. determined, to retire, frpm business phd eeeing Mr BroVn, ohg of the defendants I ?n the street, he tolcf him, that he.had a quantity'' of 1 ribbons which hV Wkff - Wi\lto dispose ofj and proposed that it would !>ttit Brawn to buy th§ih. oMjftr Prpfrß'aaid that ifrtha-prioe 'surtedV qtiShtfty l jWas no object; pritided, of course; the g6Ms - wnrCifresh, rMr Bishop, who was knownas , ribbon ; ,«i»Dt;;iin defendant’s* firm, ' Was deputed to inspect the ribbons. Mr Hay called 1 knd saw Mr Ewing, next d,ay and a similar arrangement was I’oiiitftJ) witli him', A dky or two iatflr Mr Bishop called at MxbHsiy’4 firtfaises, pnd wenfc ; the ribbohs,, which had .been arranged most cnrefntyyqp. oOnsequenoe pf his anticipated visit Mr went pver the ribbohs • examining':the ; 'quantities toarked out, snd fihaUy * bargain wnu'itruck ht sd. 'fhe go.qln were spn^rouhd to-Messrs Brown, Ewing, and Cq,, and of fchp goods sent to Mr Hey/':! TwtFdayu after Mr Hay r§G§iyed’ > a'’ mptices saying that the ribbons J Jilyjpg .Bh ungrown, pwmg, ( afe jtha r Cisk of ‘ The "only question was whether the acceptance and delrVety was sufficient to Satisfy Frauds.-—Mr Stout argtfed'ihe law points at length; “No purchase coald“beTnade~bjr M r B^hop*.-whl9 ojUy salesmah tb/defeindr ants; and Sbeea spnt' to simjdy ini ppeht hhe ribbonh; defendants would be ijosti-! jfiedi in .■ refusing ,tp.*apcapt 4ny ■ g6ods'' pup-’ chased by him. —Thomas Brown, deposed ;to having met plaintiff on the day on which Mr Bishop.purchased; ; thie ribbons. On learning don®, and .before the arrival bf the ribbons, he sought for ,Mr Hay, and ( told him;-that, Bishop had no--authority to jpurchase the‘g6oda, and that their purchase (Was repudiated, —By "Mr Macassey ; Mr iBwh.OP k number of’-purchases fpr them during the twelve txmuth|i he was intheir employ-’; %b‘ the'phreblAje m f b<fts^on was.fihe:Awt !)l whicte witness had .ndnsed w.: rafcl fy. , They nevpr hpnnd by,.Mr BishopV pttrchaseW • but ih all mentioned had cohbluHed Hid bargain at the price agreed to by that gentleman. In the -■ qafestiob M.r Bishop had'exceeded'hft~ authority.—Ralph Ewing was also called and da anther to Mr Mawkssey, said .that' hiS salesman had been entra ped into the sale >by T . ’(hfat ‘Wah- the only vexchsei (given by Mr Rlshop of’ his conduct when jc barged with exceeding his .duty, judgment (was reserved.

| ■ ,r;i„ i Saturbay, October s. l(Befoi& S', and Ai'Mci&r, Esq.U'.K’V'' ' ?

i —David'G-rev abd Catherine jLoney \vere each fined 6^'with the alterna<,*f;; fewentyrfent Injurs’,imprisonment 3 (Mary Leary 20i ortee Mary Timm-' (son 40a, or fourteen days’. ; Jtoput mi ,g H?!W W%Atealmg., qn October 2,. a pair °y.-A®pA® 9?si® -Vfdtt/a. .of ~6s! from tbe. J phpp Ayws. j'p^wobrokera,. at : i;ppt.—(Acppsed aJd that she rauld not bay? ! the worse of liquor at the tjime.T-.Subj limjeoaccused wos a married living in one of the Govern,ment Cottages at Kensington; 'The vafue o? the goods being in accordance with,tbe powers conferred pn them tb'difemis tlepahfe i&si. s tbdS'if apim ’bftii&hif bp 1 ebb Wild be severely punisuM. ,? '' ’ . dA .roj n>'< H 9jjel a coat, trousers, and vest, of the value of'-Li. • lie a|so cliargejJ with stealing from the same jjl&tfe'a ooat. 'bootsj ind hi; tatag pf tfeg; property:of,(Chwlp« Jonnson, Both pflfences tyere admitted by the accused, and sentence was deferred,— Priaqner.Twffcgi their, further charged with stealing from the RoyatGeorge Hotel a gold n6^|^y°—& Y B^nc^ three of the first two charges; and while morally certain

he waa guilty on the third charge also, dismissed it because of the want of sufficient identification that he was the person whe pawned the pin.—ln answer! to the Bench, Sub-Inspector Mallard said that accused had been swindling people out of mmayr in many oases. He wont on two shipnMfflfaNßot aUv. vance notet cashed, “ doing out of 1.4 or L 6. He had [very bad career. N|s|! 1