RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 52, 26 June 1862, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

(Before J. Curling, lEsq, R.M.) Thomas Maslerion, an old offender as a drunkard, was fined 20s. and sentenced to be imprisonrd for seven days with hard labor, for havtng been drunk in the streets the pre* ceding day. June 20. J. A. Smith & Co., v. James Wilson. A claim of £l. 3s. 3d. Paid into Court with costs 4s. J. A. Smith $ Co. v. W. Smith, Plaintiffs claimed £7 3s. 3d. from William Smith, carpenter. Paid into Court with costs ss. J. A. Smith 8f Co. v. H. Shirley. An action to recover £2 16s. Judgment for plaintiffs by default. Costs, 17s. 6d. J. A. Smith Sf Co. v. W. Couper, Jun. A claim of £2 Bs. Judgment confessed. Costs 10s. 6d. ff ilkinson v. Lingard. Plaintiff claimed .£lO 16s. for rent due. Judgment for the amount with costs 15s. June 24. J. A. Smith $ Co. v. W. Villers. A claim for £lO 11s. lOd. Judgment confessed, costs 15s. Eurke v. Hammond. A claim of £2 No appearance of the parties. Russell v. Syson. A claim for the recovery of a saddle and its appurtenances or its value (£B.) entrusted to the care of the Defendant, on the 23rd of May last at the Spit, to be brought up to Town and delivered at the Masonic Hotel, but which had not been to delivered nor since returned. Charles Syson an oath says:—“l am a car Driver, lam not a carrier. I got the saddle from the Plaintiff who told me if I did not pick him up I was to deliver it at Sutton’s. When Igot along a portion of the Road I picked him up, and the saddle was then in the Car. I put him down at Sutton’s and I don’t know but what he took the saddle then. I take parcels if people give them so me lam not responsible for them, I tometimes get paid for them. Fred. Sutton on oath said.—“ There was a saddle, and bridle left at my place a month or two ago—and it has been lying there ever since. I do not know who left it there.” The Defendant, here stated that that saddle to the best of his belief was the Plaintiff's saddle. The plaintiff thereupon went, and examined the saddle and returning into Court stated that the saddle was his property -—and that he was satisfied, and would pay the Court fees. June 25. Given O’Brien was charged with having been drunk on the day before. Fined ss.