RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5740, 22 August 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Thursday, Avgust 21. (Before T, A. Mansford, Esq., R.M. DRUNKENNESS. Two male drunkards were fined 6s. each, with the usual alternative in default of payment. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Madeley v. Spring, £4 11s., ordered to pay one-half in fourteen days, and the balance in a month afterwards, or go to gaol for three months ; Evening Argus v. Stanford, £3 18s., ordered to pay debt and costs in a month, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment ; Standen v. W. E. Smith, £7 19s. 7d.; to pay by two instalments, one-halt in fourteen days, and the balance in a month afterwards, or six weeks’ imprisonment ; Turnbull and Co. v. Sellars, £lB Is. lid., to pay in fourteen days, or go to gaol for eight weeks;

Harris r. Hutchens, £ls 17s. 2d., to pay £4 monthly, or go to;;v>I for six weeks ; Young v. Silk, £3 6s. to p-.y £2 monthly, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. CIVIL CASKS. •Judgment was given for plaintiff in the following cases :—Dawson v. Stevenson, £26 3s. 3d. ; Standen v. Bowring, 18s. ; Woods and another v. Owler, £lO lbs.; Stewart and Co. v. J. F. Wills, £3 Is, 5d.; Pevaz v. Owen, £2 ; G-sar v. Thomas, £7 Bs. "d.; Gear v. Dr. Watts, £1 ICs. lid.; Harris v. Hood, £27 11s. 6d.; Williams and Cameron’s estate v. Ritson, £1 Is. 9d.; McEwan and another v. Simmons, £l2 Bs. 6d. ; Hogarth v. Simmons, £25 16s. Bd.; Stewart and Co. v. H. E. Tonks, £9 6a. Id. Nonsuits were entered in the cases of Mason’s estate v. Humphries, claim for 17s. 6d.; same v. Bills, 10s.; and Staohan v. Brooks, £sl 13s. 6d.

F. F. Knight v. Tramway Company.—ln this case Mr. Ollivier reminded his Worship that on Jan. 10 judgment had been obtained for plaintiff, but the company had given notice of appeal against this decision. A case had been stated, but the company had neglected to prosecute the appeal, and Mr. Ollivier now asked that execution might be issued at once, and that the costs of the appeal be added to the original judgment. Mr. Travers, junr., appeared for the company, and after considerable argument his Worship reserved judgment, remarking at the same time that these appeal cases gave him more trouble than all his other work put together. France v. Wills.—His Worship gave judgment in this case, which was a claim for £2O, damages to a boat carried by the s.s. Huia, of which vessel defendant was master. The judgment was to the effect that defendant having accepted the responsibility of conveying the whaleboat in so small a vessel, and had not made such conditions as would render him non-liable in case of accident, he was responsible for the sate delivery of the boat. Jadgment was therefore given for the amount claimed, and costs. In the case of Platt v. Platt, a dispute between two brothers, an adjournment was made for a week to allow of the matter being settled by arbitration.

Waddell and another v. Dear—This was a claim for £56 11s. 7d. Mr. Ollivier appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. Gordon Allan for defendant. The case arose in consequence of defendant, who was contractor for a building, having failed to erect certain shutters to the satisfaction of the architect, in consequence of which the sureties performed the work, and now sued the contractor for the value of it. The case having been gone into at some length, judgment was reserved.