RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, GISBORNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 99, 25 October 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, GISBORNE.

Thursday, October 16. [Before W. K. Nesbitt, Esq., R.M.] R. M. Skeet v. Ema Katipa.— Claim Ils lOd amount of assessments due to the Road Board for 1872. The bench gave judgment for defendant, but she, nevertheless considered the claim a good one and paid the amount into Court, the Board having to pay costs. Two claims for assessment preferred by Mr. Skeet against Wi Haronga and Noa Whakatira were settled out of Court. W. Daly v. R. Mackey.— Claim 12s for board. Judgment for amount and costs. lUi Pere v. J. Anderson.— This was a judgment summons issued against the defendant to appear to show cause why the judgment recorded in favor of plaintiff on the 25th of June last for the payment of £l3 5s remains unsatisfiefj- Defendant pleaded a general inability, but thought that he would be able soon to satisfy judgment. Ordered to pay amount claimed and costa by the 30th January 1874. Thursday, October 23. Colebrook v. Panapa Waihopi. —Claim £ll 10s for goods supplied. Judgment for amount and costs. Colebrook v. Hohepa Waikore. — Claim £2l9s 6d for goods supplied. Judgment for amount and costs. Colebrook v. Hakupa.— Claim £2 13s 6d for goods supplied. Settled out of Court. Male v. Williams. — This was a claim for £3O made by Mr. Hale for damages sustained by defendant’s non-performanee of an agreement to sell certain sheep to him the said plaintiff. Frederick W. Hale, sworn states: “ I made an agreement with the defendant in August last (agreement produced) to purchase a number of sheep from me. The defendant has since repudiated the agreement. I arranged with John Bidgood to depasture the sheep. Defendant went to Bidgood’s to look at the sheep, and said he did not like them. He* agreed to pay me £l2O for

250 sheep. The agreement was written on the day before mentioned in it. It was signed and stamped on a Sunday at Colebrook’s hotel.” Thomas Saddler, sworn states: “I saw the agreement iu question signed, I was a witness to it. He said he understood the agreement when I read it. By the plaintiff: I read the agreement to the defendant three or four times. Other evidence of a conflicting nature was adduced, but the Bench considered the one fact of the deed having been signed and stamped on a Sunday, was fatal to it, and, co-inciding with Mr - Cuff’s quotation from Chitty, gave judgment for defendant.