RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 160, 9 July 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before L. Broad, Esq., R.M.]

HARVET V. BuNGtATJE. , Tbis was an action to recover £41 for rent: >] Mr Fell. appeared for the plaintiff.' iJJeT fendant did not appear. Judgment foramount claimed, and costs £3 15s. Mr Acton Adam3 asked that judgment might be suspended. He had previously been engaged by the defendant in this case, but was under the impression that it had been withdrawn, as a distress warrant had been issued; and defendant's cattle had been seized. He did not know how unicli theV had realised. y. v V .•>,.- Mr Fell stated that the receipts were nil, as the cattle after being seized had been rescued vi et armit. Pickett v. Dodson. ' P This was an action to recover £25, being a half year's fees alleged tobe due by Mr H. Dodson of Blenheim for his daughter's schoollug. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Acton Adams for the defendant. For the plaintiff it was stated that there were two sets of terms, one for yearly and the other for quarterly tuition and board Mr Dodson, on taking his daughter to Mr Pickett's had selected the former, and left her, as was understood, for a year. The girt • was at school four months and ten days Defendant had paid £33. The balance- of £25 was now sued for on the ground that the' contract had been one for a year. The evidence of Mr, Mrs, and Miss Dodson for the defence had been taken at Blenheim, and was to the effect that there waa no understanding that the girl was to be at school for a year, and that there had been a special arrangement that only one other girl was to sleep in the same room with her whereas there had been five. The latter arrangement was denied hy theplaintiffi, ; . ; - ;-;

i Hb l^orahip^aid was olearly^of. f^ff**f 0Q * %* fe the' plainitfe w&g entitled <$£ "a qa&rter's fees in lieu ofrnotice, as ijfc was dis* tinctly sfated 'ia thfel* cfrcular, *fahich th'e defendant, had in ihis handVHen agreeing to sepdihis daughter to the school* that a qnar-? .of .th-^embvfTfF.MW N pupil^ musk ; be given. The judgraenifwould be for £$£ 10s, and costs £2 6s. Riwaka S. N. Company v. Fletchek. This was an action to recover £100 from the defendant for so negligently sailing the Maid ; ,of Italy, of which he was- master,, that bhe Mas wrecked qnifche Boulder Bank. ■) h m& Acton Adams appeared "fbr the plain-"' tiffs, and Mr Pitt for the defendant. Long legal arguments occupied the Court _ dueing-the: whole o£ the af terhboh, anTwere not concluded at the time of our going to press.