RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 102, 2 May 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I ••■',- ._ j (Before L. Broad, Esq., R.M.) Pickett v. Carlisle.— Action to recover £ 1 3j lOsf or board and education. Judgment for plaintiff for" amount claimed, and costs 21s. ' : '"' Kerr v? -Stafford.— This was an faction to recover £15' for the conversion to his use by the [defendant of a cow purchased by plaintiff ;f rom Mr Freeth. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Fell for. the defendant: Mr Freeth, the principal witness, being about, to leave Nelson, it was agreed that he should be examined to-day, and that the case should then, in the absence of the I defendant, be adjourned. His evidence was as follows :— ln September last I brought over some cattle from Wanganui for sale, one of which got away. Mr Stafford told me there had been a beast of mine in hi3 herd, i but that it had gone again. I asked him if he would buy the chance of it. He said if it came back he would kill it, and sendee the value. To this I agreed, provided that I did not sell it before I left Nelson. I have never heard from him since about the matter. On the following morning I saw Mr Kerr and sold him the chance of the beast for £8, and received the money. The bargain was concluded in the presence of Mr'Pickeritrg, who made out the sale note. The beast cost me £12 landed in Nelson. The case was then adjourned for a week. Wakely v. Protheroe .— Action to recover £10, price of horse sold to defendant, and lOs for a week's hire of the animal previous to the sale. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff. Mr Fell, on behalf of the defendant, said that he had no defence to offer, but his client was a man without any capital at all, and merely required time to pay the money. The horse was an old one, and ever since the purchasej three months ago, had to be turned out. Defendant, on being asked what time he required, thought he might be able to pay the amount off in small instalments within six months, a proposition that was ric"culed by 'Mr Pitt. His. Worship said that the question of time was one.to. be .settled between the two principals He must give judgment for the amount claimed and costs £2. •