RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, RICHMOND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 32, 6 February 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, RICHMOND.

■r[Before Lowther Broad, Esq., R.M. and George Talbot, Esq., J.P.] , Kearns v. Cropp. Cropp v. Kearns* Kearns v. Cropp. Three cross summonses, which the Bench decided to hear together, for assaults, in which Mrs Kearns proceeded against Mrs and Miss Cropp, aud Miss Cropp against Mrs Kearns, the row all cropping out of Cropp's horse getting into Mrs Kearn's crops. Mr Fell appeared for Mrs Kearns, and Mr Pitt for Mrs and Miss Cropp. Mrs Kearns deposed that on the 3rd Jau, one of Cropp's horses was in her crop of corn and she turned it out and left it on the road. The two Cropps were on the road; the" younger one rushed at her and knocked her into the hedge, and then the mother Cropp tied her hands while the daughter beat her her cruelly. She had said nothing to them but that they would have to pay if their ho-'se got into the crop again. The two came at her like wild Indians. Elizabeth Cropp: I am the daughter of the other defendant. I met Mrs Kearns on the road on the 3rd January, when she said if he horses got into the corn again we should have to pay. I said they had not been in. She ..said, "Say ifc again." I repeated it, when she called me odious names and flew at my neck- scratching it and making ifc bleed. J seized Mrs Kearns by the hair and shook her off. Mrs Cropp never torched Mrs : Kearns and was not at any time near enough to do so. Mrs Cropp and another daughter gave corroborative evidence and their Worships dismissed all three informations.