RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 178, 30 July 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before L. Broad, Esq., R.M.] Harvey v. Elkington.-~Action to recover £27 los Bd. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintitt. inere was no appearance of the defendant. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed, and costs £3 7s. Infield v.Poole -Action to recover £21 j 19s for board and lodging and refreshments. Mr Acton Adams appeared for the plaintiff, i A. telegram was received from the defendant from Chnstchurch stating that he had filed his schedule in November last. Under the circumstances Mr Scaife, the trustee in the estate, declined to proceed with the action. Jaa J* ?Z iains -~- Acfcion to scorer i * Mr Actoa Ada "i3 appeared for the plaintiff. His Worship: What about recovering for refreshments in this case? Mr Adams: The man was a lodger, and therefore the amount can ba recovered His Worship: It appears strange that this should be the case. Here I find charged aga-nsfc him for refreshments on one day fhtJfts" 2? a ?°S er£3 Ua - lt m *y be that this is the total amount for the intervening time, but if one who lived next door had run up the account, he could not hare been sued for it. It geama a .trange provision of the law. * e Mr Infield being sworn showed that tho items had been placed on the elate at different times, and the total had then been charged in the bill. ' Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs. Mr Adams applied for the costs of bringing Infield from Wellington, but these his Worship would not allow, stating that the evidence might have been taken in the Resident Magistrate's Court in Wellington. Mr Adams said that his experience of this course of procedure was that it was quite useless, as the parties who appeared in Court always won their case against the absent party. His Worship remarked that Mr Adams appeared to have been rather unfortunate in his experience. The Court then adjourned.