MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2401, 15 December 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBIBTOHUEOH. Thursday, December 15. [Before a. L. Melliab, Esq., R.M.] Drunkenness. —For a first offence a man was fined 5s and ordered to pay oabhire la. Embezzlement. John Symmington, charged with appropriating to his own use 2a, the property of hia employer, Caleb James Lee, waa, on the application of the police, remanded till Saturday next. CITIL Cases. —Farmer v Sandford and Sandford. In thia case, adjourned from Wednesday, being a claim for £25 for damages irom loaa of time and dootor'a fees paid on account of injuries received in an assault. Dr. Ovenden now gave evidence. He stated that he had treated plaintiff for bruises produced by direct violence on the head, loina and right knee. The injuries to the baok gave rise to deep seated pain, and incapacitated plaintiff from work for some weeks. Mr Grosaon appeared for plaintiff, Mr Stringer for defendants as at the previous hearing. After hearing the additional evidonoe and addresses from counsel, his Worship gave judgment for plaintiff for £5 8s ; expenses of witnesses, £2 4a, and solicitor's fee, £2 2s. —Webb v Jebaon v Atkinson, £3 16:i, for carriage of grass seed. Defendants had sold some grass seed to plaintiff who took delivery at Christchuroh and paid freight on it from Malvern. He now sued for a refund of the freight money, alleging that it was the custom for consignors to deliver goods free at Christchuroh, and that in this oase there had been no agreement to the contrary. Defendant said that after the lapse of two years since the transaction, he was not prepared to swear that there had been any such agreement. Judgment for plaintiff for £3, being the amount less a oharge for interest. Lipsham v Preston, olaim 9s 6d for work done in house-painting and material; judgment for plaintiff for ss, with costs. Trumble v Donovan, £5 10s, for value of a pigearhouse, said to be illegally removed from property sold to plaintiff by defendant, and for rent of house not vacated according to agreement; Mr Holmes appeared for defendant ; judgment for plaintiff for 10s, with oosts. Judgments were given for plaintiffs, by default, in Dunoan v Eckberg, £lO 8a 8d; Same v Cairnoross, £l9 9s ; Sheppard v Davis, £4 10a ; Same v Thiele, 10s; Bussel v Johnston, £3 15s; Terael v Plested, £6 ; and Bbodes v Wiseman, £lO. Sherrin v Sullivan and Peart v Buller were adjourned till December 21st.