RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CAMPBELLTOWN.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 79, 2 December 1864, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CA MPBELLTOWN.

TUESDAY, 29TH NOVEMBEB, 1864. (Before I. TSewton' Watt, Esq., M.) ,■< ; /.m. sciifLON y:o. j. vaxse?. 1 ; } •...;, . .. ., Claim :for,damagesj £l6. .:;:,jl.*::\ ■••-■■,/■; Michael Scanlpn.deppsed that defendants' men had remoTed> a liouae \ belonging ...to^himi situated ; on the Bluß'ELoad.; .and.that the t^ber. was then in defendant's garden. The houße -was built on . private land. -Plaintiff had permission to build it from a man by the mame ?6f Rodie. The house had no roof on it. Tlie canvas roof had been removed; but the doors of. it were, fastened on the morning of the day on which the house; was t a^e n away. , Defendant's" son told hint he had taken the house away. 'Mx. Aitkeni the "surveyor^' told plaintiff the house was on private land. There | •was €XX) feet of timber in the house. It was built of boards i^-siab'sl^Thb Blabs, were' heavy, and; cost W'rn^re toan boards would have' done. -;: 0. J. Paine, defendant, said plaintiff came to him .on ar.Sunday ■- morning to complain -of hjs house being" down ;, he; was . the worse of liquor; Defendant told JMm^ Sunday,, was ; not^a^dayibr bilßhiess. H!aH heard nothing more about it till he •was Bummoiie3,v r -Ho Mad ; laken the house as he hadVtaken^manyiOthers. He : had a goyernment license to out timber. Some .of the, jglaba of r the. hou»e were down : whei it, ww -taken. .There ■was; *o^mw^w4^feet^,bo»ycl iu;the:Jiou«err*e^

had measvufed-it.? There wwars r only one; door, not two. .The timber was hot _^or& |£2. it had; all been board it^wpuld not .have been /worth' more than ; £7. Did net know wbafc was Jttie value of the house'as it stood, and before it was removed. Supposed it had heen deserted. This being all the evidence offered, and both parties intimating that they could bring further evidence, the Magistrate told them it was their duty to bring the, best evidence they could, »nd would adjourn the case till Tuesday next.