THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 4

THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before H. Y. widdoweon, Esq., S.M.) Judgment by default was given for plaintiff in the folio wring cases:—Robert Brunton (Mr W. L. Mooxe) v. Francis Tobin, £1 6s, on account stated, with costs (£>s) j Johnston, Sons, and Co. (Mr Scantlebury) v. Charles Cyril Sullivan (Haweta), £2 7s 6d, balance for books, with costs (10s); same v. Thomjs Coldrick (Kaimiro), £1 ss. balance for Bible, with costs (9s); J. M'Donald, Ltd. (Mr Moore) v. Thomas Cotton (Christchurch), £4 15s, goods, with cost* (13s); Johnston, Sens, and Co. (Mr Scantlebury) v. Richard Gwynne Trimble (Huntly), £7 12s 6d, balance for books, with costs (£1 3s 6d); eame v. William Edward Butler (Patea), £9 4s 6d, book*, with costs (£1 3s 6d); same. v. Charle* Duncan (Gisborne), £5 ss, books, with costs (£1 3s 6d); same v. James Davey (Nelson), £2 ss, balance for books, with costs (10s); same v. James P. Flinn (Dannevirke), £3, balance for Bible, with costs (10s); same v. Hugh Earley (New Plymouth), £3 ss, balance for Bible, with costs (10s); George T. K. M'Kenzio v. John Nelson (Cave), £5 ss, tea supplied, with costs (19s); same v. Charles Forsyth (Glenorchy), £1 19s 7d, tea, with costs (£1 ss); same v. Duncan Holmes, £3, tea, with costs (ss); game v. Charles Beattie (Hakataramea). £1 15s sd, tea. with costs (8s); Butterworth Brothers (Mr R. R. Aspinall) v. J. M. Powell (Charlton), £l7 0s 6d. goods, with costs (£1 10s 6d); Commercial Agency Company (Mr H. Baron) v. Henry A. Richards (carrying on business as Finch and Co., Waimangaroa), £7 19s 7d, goods, with costs (£1 8s od). Seizure of a Hansom Cab. —Angus Matheson, of Kakanui, laborer, sought to recover from Samson and Co., auctioneers, the sum of £4O, the value of a hansom cab alleged to havo been wrongfully taken possession of and sold by defendants. Mr Ongley appeared for the plaintiff, Mr A. S. Adams for tho defendants.—Mr Ongley stated that on February 8, 1907, Matheson, who was then a small fanner, bought a. hansom cab from a man named Robert Kirk, through Bruce, Christie, and Co., Odma-ru. Afterwards he sent tho cab to Dunedin to run it here. He discovered, however, that ho could not get a transfer of a leasehold section which ho had sold, and he went back to reside on the land. He left tho cab with Kirk in Duuedin. Later Matheson went shearing to raise eomo money, but being inclined to take a good deal of drink at times he set out on a drinking bout, and got sent to Rotcroa Island for detention in the Inebriates' Home. He was there for a year or eo. When he came back he found that his cab had been seized and sold by defendants under distress for rent. It appeared that the Kirks owed some money for rent, and that they told defendants that the cab was not "theirs. Defendants nata.vlly did not believe that statement, «jid took pc+eession of the cab.—Evidence va3 given hy plaintiff, Mary Kirk, and Julius M'Quaid. —At the conclusion of plaintiff'a evidence Mr Adams applied for a nonsuit on the ground that plaintiff had not proved hie case.—Nonsuit granted, with coste (£4 12s).