RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 94, 22 April 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Extended Jurisdiction. (Before J. Poynter, Esq., R.M.) Monday, April 20.

Lockett v. Eoper. — This was an action to recover £53 9s. 6d., due to the plaintiff from the defendant, who is an hotelkeeper at Charleston, for tbe board and lodging, &c. ofhis son. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff, for whom judgment was given in the amount claimed, with 16s. costs.

S. Nell is v. H. Hopper. — Action to recover £23 2s. 2d., the amount of goods supplied to the defendant's wife prior to her marriage, and when the plaintiff was ' keeping company ' with her. Documentary evidence of a very tender character was produced to show that the goods in question were presents, and the plaintiff was nonsuited.

Armstrong v. Bush. — An action to recover £27 65., the amount of a bill of exchange for £21, accepted by the defendant, a publican at Westport, with three years interest at £10 per cent, which had been presented and dishonored. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £21, with interest at £10 per cent., with paymeut from the date the bill became due, aucl costs, £3 14s. Mr. Pitt appeared for the plaintiff.

Field, v. Carter. — Au action to recover £29 13s. 3d. for 13 weeks' use and occupation of the Lord Nelson Hotel, at £1 10s. 3d. per week, together with proportion of License Fee for that time. The plaintiff having expressed his willingness to take the rent at £60 per auuum, judgment was given for him for £25, and costs, £3 45., payable in three months. Mr. H. Adams appeared for the plaintiff.

J. Watkins v. J. Crate. — Action to recover £75, for one quarter's rent of Sections Nos. 80, SI, aud 84, at Westport, due on the Ist March last, and payable quarterly. Mr. 11. Adams appeared for the plaintiff, who obtained judgment for £75, and costs, £5 ss.

S. Nicholson v. A. Wiesenhavern. Action to recover £100, the value of four cows and their increase, and oue bull, detained by the plaintiff, and for damages sustained by such detention. Mr Kingdon appeared for tne plaintiff, aud Mr Pitt for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that in May, 1862, Mrs Nicholson had delivered to the defendant 15 head of cattle to be depastured by him on the Top house run, at the rate of Is. per month per head ; that in December, 1863, she received back part of the said stock, consisting of ten head of cattle with their increase, the defendant detaining and holding, as it was alleged, four cows and their increase and one bull. For the defence it was pleaded that one of the steers left at the Tophouse had been found dead on the run, that the bull had been got in aud delivered to a man named Cole for Mrs Nicholson, but had died on the road down, and that the rest of the cattle were still on the run, but could not be mustered. Tho defendant also pleaded that when he took the cattle, he did not agree to muster them for delivery, though he had tried to do so; and that he never considered that he had incurred any responsibility. The plaintiff was nonsuited.