RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 248, 17 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Gisborne, Tuesday, 16th Feb., 1875. [Before G. R. Johnson, Esq., J.P., (Chairman), and J. W. Johnson, Esq., J.P.] Hihini Haebeoni was fined 10s and costs for furious riding in the streets of Gisborne. JONES V. SORRY. Claim £4 14s. Goods sold and delivered. Defendant claimed a set off £1 14s 6d and paid £2 4 6d into court. Judgment for balance for plaintiff, 15s. WI BBOWN V. KING. Mr. Cuff for plaintiff; Mr. Wilson for defendant. Claim £3O damages for trespass. From the evidence adduced for the plaintiff it appeared that the defendant’s cattle had trespassed upon his (plaintiff’s) land destroying grass seed, &c., and had continued to do so from the beginning of December last, although they had repeatedly been driven off. For the defence it was argued, and supported by testimony, that the destruction of the grass seed was occasioned by the horses of some hundred or so natives who had attended a tangi. The case lasted best part of the day, and after a careful examination and short deliberation, the Bench considered that a trespass had been committed, but the questiou of damages they held to be very complicated and unsatisfactory. Judgment for plaintiff Is and costs.