RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4258, 19 October 1876, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

,1 a THtJBSDAYi OcrpßEß Jff. . , (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.) ‘Barton v, Allan.—ln this case, which was to recover L6I due on a bill of costs foi proceedings to obtain a rule quo warranto against Mr J. P. Jones, Mayor of St. Rilda, his: Worship was of opinion that the plaintiff, after service of the rule nisi on Jones, was bound, as attorney, in the absence of further instructions to continue his services until the argument of the rule was concluded; r - A jpto? nmclnweight <P-thb eri-‘ deuce of either Rougnton o^Gr6o<hflon,. ! who, besides being somewhat inconsistent, appeared over-anxious to shelter themselves from their share of responsibility. But as a signed account had not been delivered, asr: -; ; required by Jaw, his Worship couldi only " givd judgment hot included m the account rendered; Judgment for plaintiff Ll9 fcs 2d with costs. T ’ In the foHowihg cases'jridgnrtht wsshiven for plaintiffs ; Isaacs and Marks v. George Anderson, L 8 ; M. Fleming v, James Russell, L2 6s 2d; William Napier v. William Diokabiv Ll 2s OEristie v. Walter Bell, LI 2s 2d. >