MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2613, 22 August 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUEOH. Tuesday, August 22. [Before J, Ollivier, Esq., B.M.] Dbunkbknbss.—For first offences two men were fined each 6s, or in defanlt twenty-four hours’ imprisonment wish hard labor. 1 Civil Oases. —Wright v Ogden, claim £2 fij fid, for wages as milkboy. Mr Stringer appeared for defendant. The case had been adjourned from the 15bh instant. Defendant now produced a witness, who proved that plaintiff had been insolent ana loft his master’s employment without giving notice. Judgment for defendant with costs. Partridge v Stinson, claim £9, for cartage. Defendant disputed part of the claim as an overcharge. Plaintiff, a licensed carrier, produced the ocale of charges authorised by corporation by-law, showing that the claim was something less than ho was entitled to make.

Judgment was for plaintiff with costs. Campbell v Hawkins, claim £1 15s 6d, being the balance due on the Iprioe of a heifer sold at auction. Judgment for plaintiff with costs and expenses of one witness. Bowman v Vickery, claim £9 fij, for horse hire. Judgment for plaintiff with costs, solicitor’s fee, and expenses of one witness. Mr Izard wes for plaintiff. Hawken v Torrence, claim £l2, for the value of a horse, Mr Stringer appeared for plaintiff ; Mr MoOonnel for the defendant. Plaintiff stated that on the evening of July 29th last, at about 6 p.m., as he was riding on the Lincoln road homewards to Prebbloton at a moderate pace, defendant came up in the opposite direction driving a gig vary fast. Plaint s was on his proper side of the road, and near the footpath. Ho endeavored to get out of defendant’s way, but failed. A collision took p’a'e. Plaintiff was knocked off his horre and fell on to the footpath, shaft of the gig penetrated the hind leg of plaintiff’s horse, going right through it. The animal was so much injured Shat it had to be destroyed on the spot. William Gallagher, who had bean in company with the plaintiff, corroborated the above evidence, Samuel Penrose, another witness called by plaintiff, however completely contradicted his evidence and that of Gallagher. He had been within five or six yards of the spot and saw the collision, which occurred by the fault of plaintiff. Defendant’s version also was the opposite cf plaintiff’s. Judgment for defendant with costs. Torrancev Hawken, claim £1 2s 6d, for damage* sustained by the trap in the collision named in the previous case. Judgment for plaintiff with costs. Judgments went for plaintiffs by default In Coppin v Hyndmao, 11s 6i ; same v Wakefield, £6 18s ; tame v Smith, £1 14a 3d j Standard Brewery Company v Smith, £4 12s 9d ; Sparks v Pearce, £2 2c fid; Emerson v Mahndel, £4 8s ; N.Z L. and M. A, Company v Beaumont, £l6 lls 9i ; Harris v Miles, £3 4s fid; and Bissel v Wakefield, £7 12i. Spanger v Chambers was adjourned till August 29th ; Harris v Beeves till August 24th.