RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, COBDEN.

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, COBDEN.

Monday, April 5. (Before J. H. Lowe, Esq., R.M.) • CIVIL CASES. Wilkie v. Velson.— Claim of £22 3s. 7d. for goods supplied. Mr Perkins appeared for the defendant, and asked that a proper account should be furnished of the claim. The case was adjourned for a week for this purpose. Wilkie v. Mrs Miller.— Claim of £99 6s. Bd. for goods supplied. The goods were supplied over a period of three years, and it was only within the last three months that the plaintiff knew the defendant had a husband at the Ahaura. The goods were supplied on the defendant's own responsibility. The defendant stated that had her husband not stepped in and collecting the debts which were due to her, she would have paid this claim, and she claimed that the same law which gave her husband that right should protect her. — Case dismissed. Wilkie. v. Smith.— Claim of £3 65., the balance of rent due on a house on the North Beach, at the rate of 6s. per week, v nder a written agreem ent. Mr Gu inness, for the defence, argued that the document produced was not a deed as required by law, and was not regularly stamped. These , objections were overruled The plaintiff stated that he purchased the house in question from one Handyside for £8 ; he afterwards sold it to Mrs Nokea, and got it back seven or eight months ago. In January last he let the place to the defendant, whose wife paid the first week in advance. The defendant stated that the house still belonged to Handyside, and he was in treaty for' the purchase of it. The house was built on a portion of a claim when he took possession of it. The agreement to pay rent was signed because the defendant's wife was ill, and the plaintiff would not allow his dray to remnye their goods unless the document was first signed. Mr Hall stated that he received authority from Handyside to sell the house, and sold it to Mrs Nokes ; but he never received the money. Charles Baptist said that when Smith took possession of the building it had been abandoned for three months. The Magistrate said the question of title to the property was not in dispute in this case. The defendant must be held to the agreement he had signed, and which had not yet been terminated. Judgment for the amount claimed, and costs. Mr Guinness asked permission to appeal, which was granted. Wilkie v. Rose.— Claim of £13 9s. Bd. The debt was admitted, and £A paid into Court on account. Judgment for the balance, to be paid within a month. Symons and Graham v. Walker. — Claim of £37 Bs. Judgment by default, with costs. M'Kenna v. Rugg. — Adjourned until to-day, in consequence of informality in the service.