RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4411, 10 May 1875, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, Hay 8. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., 8.M.) MINOR OFFENCE. Win. Jenkins, for allowing his horse to holt, was fined ss. CIVIL CASES. Eitohett v. Cooper—Claim £7, the value of a cart, built to the order of defendant. Judgment for amount and costs. Plimmer, Beeves, and Co. v. W. V. Jackson —Claim £l6 ss. 7d., amount overcharged upon the receipt and delivery of certain goods landed from the Dallam Tower. Mr. Hart for plaintill ; Mr. Travers for defendant. Plaintiff stated that, having entered into an agreement with the General Government to tranship coastwise a quantity of railway material from the Dallam Tower, he made arrangements with Mr. Gannaway to receive delivery from the ship, so that the defendant had nothing whatever to do with the receipt of the goods, and therefore was not entitled to make a charge under that head. Mr. Jackson, however, insisted upon making a charge of £2l 6s. 7d., and this amount plaintiff paid under protest, although he admitted his indebtedness to the extent of £8 Is. for storage. —Defendant denied that Mr. Gannaway received delivery from the ship, and alleged that the goods were received and stored by his employes, for which the usual charge of Is. 6d. per ton for receiving, and Is. 6d. per ton per week for storage was claimed, and paid under protest.’ The customary routine was gone through, which is, that if goods are not taken away within three hours after being landed from ship’s side, they are stored by the wharfinger at consignee’s risk and expense, and a week's storage charged for every fraction of a week Several witnesses having been examined, his Worship said the defendant’s case had been fully and clearly made out, and judgment would therefore be in his favor.