RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, NO TOWN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1265, 19 August 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, NO TOWN.

TtfESDAY, A.TJGVBT 13. . (Before 0. Whitefoord, Esq., R.M.) Mary Rice was charged on three separate informations with using indecent, abusive, and insulting and profane language to different persona at No Town on the sth August. The defendant was arrested on a charge of larceny and locked up for some days. She was released on bail, and the first use she made of her liberty was to abuse and insult several respectable residents. The evidence given in support of the charges is unfit for publication. Several previous convictions against the defendant were put in by Senior-Constable M'MynV The Magistrate said it was useless cautioning the prisoner; she was warned when she made her appearance last in the Court, but it seemed she was incorrigible. She would have to pay a fine of LlO for each offence, or in default three months' imprisonment with hard labor in each case. The same defendant was also charged with stealing LI from Edward Tudor on the 28th July. The case broke down for want of legal identification of the Ll-note produced. The prosecutor Tudor refused to swear to it, saying "he was not on." The case was dismissed.

Edward Tudor was charged with assaulting Mary Rice on the 28th July at No Town. The parties were living together at No Town. On the night of the 28th July the defendant and a man named Ellis were at Tudor's house. Ellis and Tudor fell asleep, leaving Rice and a man named Henry Morris sitting at the fire. When Tudor awoke he missed his trousers which he had placed under -his head, and he accused Rice of stealing • them, and alone; with them about L 4 in one of the pockets. High words ensued/ and tho alleged assault, was committed. The defence was that the injuries the complainant received, if any, were caused during ttift struggle between her and the defendant for possession of the panta loons. His Worship reminded the defendant that he caationed him on a feceit occasion not to come before the Court again. Tho behaviour of Rice and., him' was disgraceful, and they were always

creating disturbances. He would be sent to gaol for one month with hard labor. CIVIL OASES. Henry Deering v. Jerry M'Carthy.— A claim of LlO damages for assault, loss of time, and injury to plaintiffs business through the actions of the defendant. The house of the plaintiff was sold under a distress warrant, am defendant became the purchaser. A conversation took place between the parties about the plaintiff becoming a tenant of the defendant, and retaining possession of bis hou«e and shop. A written agreement was drawn up, but the plaintiff refused to sign it on account of a legal informality, which he said was in the wording of the document. On persisting in his refusal the defendant forcibly ejected him and committed the alleged assault. The defence was a total denial of the plaintiffs story. The defendant said the plaintiffs head was filled with legal points and quibbles, which he obtained from a law book or a cookery book, he wasn't sure which, entitled "Look Within," or " Enquire Outside." On hearing this, the plaintiff retorted that the legal adviser of the defendant was a barber, whereupon the Court observed that if one of the litigants received his law from a barber, and the other obtained his from a cookery book, the authorities would be likely to differ, although they might be of equal value. The defendant, on finding the plaintiff would neither pay rent nor give up possession of the house, resorted to a ruse to recover his property, and, going to the plaintiff in the guise of friendship, induced him (the plaintiff) to leave the house "to see a man," and when he got him outside shut the door in his face and kept him out. The assault was denied altogether. The Magistrate said the case of the plaintiff was not sustained by the evidence, and gave judgment for the defendant with costs. Duncan M'Kenzie v. John Molloy.— A claim of L 9 Is 6d for work done by the plaintiff and his wife for the defendant. plaintiff worked as a gardener, and wife nursed the wife of the defendant auring her illness. There was an item charged for a shawl, the property of the plaintiffs wife, lost by one of the servants of the defendant. The Magistrate, after taking a great deal of evidence, considered the charges of the plaintiff and his wife were excessive. The shawl was not lost through tho negligence of the defendant, and the plaintiffs own labor had been already settled for. Judgment for the defendant with costs and professional costs. Mr Staite for the defendant. James Molloy v. John Stagpool. — A claim of L 29 0s 6d for flour and other

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a ods supplied to the defendant, a baker.] No appearance of defendant. Judgment l for the plaintiff for the araornt claimed with costs. In the. above c ~ej it having: come to the knowledge of the plaintiff that tho defendant expressed an intention of leaving the Colony, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and, im default of giving satisfaction or security for the amount of the debt, he was to bo imprisoned for: three months. The defendant was arrested at Grej month, on Thursday, 15th inst., and, on the bailiff making a retumof nulla bona, Stagpool wad removed to the gaol at Oobden, to undergo tb^o, sentence. B. Maguire y. John Molloy— This case wps, on the application of Mr Staite, adjourned on account of informality in the service ot the summons.

Verdicts wero given for the plaintiff in Campbe' l . v. Jas. Green, L 3 sa ; Gillen t id Co v. same, LI 1 Ids 7id. Tbe Court was adjourned" to 12th September.