RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 42, 22 March 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before H» KfitfntcK, Esq., E.M. Tuesday, March 18, 1884. P< oltce Casj?.— Alexander Russell was charged by Sergeant Emerson with drur ikenness on the-morning of the 18th insii mt. Fined 5s or imprisonment till risir. .q of Court. Urn >kfknded Cases. — T. Lawless v. Pebi >r Qixoii, claim £10 lor board and 10 l£ ing. Judgment for amount, and cost s 1 2s. J . F. Cocks v. Palmpa (Native), cl.ii .n £1 5s Gd, goo Is supplied. Judgme it for amount, and costs JBs o<l. * \Vells and Sontter v. James Bright, £1 Gs Bd, amount of 1.0. U. Judg\ne nt for amount, and costs 7s. Same v. Owen Grair, claim £11 103 76 , amount of 1.0 U. Judgment for aO lount, and costs 2Us. John Vuglar v. John Guilding, claim £ 3 16s sd, amount for goods supplied. Ju dgment for amount, and coats 7s. Defended Cases. — J. Squirrell v» J as. Mclniosh, claim £13 16s Id, goods si ipplied. Adjourned to next Court d ay. Louis Kalman v. Peter Dixon, claim 1 7s 3d, goods supplied. No appearance. £ i truck out. Jas. Clarke v. R. Fielder, claim £3 1 9s goods supplied. Withdrawn. Thomas Hinton v. Bernard Montague, ( -I lim £5 on an order for that amount ( lor value received) given by Hugh Kirk wood to plaintiff to be paid by de- ; fondant. Plaintiff, on being sworn, stated that ,' Kirk wood in payment for value received ; give him an order on defendant for £5. (Order produced). Defendant said ife ■was all rig! it, and that he would pay it • t ! ie following week. Promised to pay it several times, but never did. Cro^-exaurined by Mr Campbell: Defendant s.iid it was all right and would pay the money, but could not just then, being hard up. Defendant, on being sworn, stated he told plain tilt he would not pay Kirkwood himself as he owed him £17. Could not say lie did, ami could not say he did not promise to pay. (It was cvi* dent in this case from the evidence given that defendant left plaintiff under the impression that he would pay him the amount of the order). Judgment lor amount claimed, and cost^ £J 13s. J. F. Cocks v. Keroama (native), > claim £2 6s Gd goods supplied. Struck i out. No service ; defendant dead. Wells and Soutter v. Jan. Gordon, ( -laim £37 lGs 4d, goods supplied. On 1 'ie application of defendant the case { iljourned till next Court day. Hume v. h\ Booth, claim -£:i 15s Gd s nods supplied. (This claim, like all b io?c laid by Messrs Wells and Soutter, i\ -ose out, of the book debts of the late 11 rm of T. W. Carr and Sons, of which il c plaintiffs wore the purchasers). Defendant, on being sworn, admitted hi -ving received the goods partly from oc c Robertson who managed a bntchcr's si] op for the late firm of T< W. Carr nn I ttons nt Waiorongomai, and partly frc >in a previous manager of the name of K'jiuc. Got bill delivered to him, paid' l!u • amount shortly afterwards to Robertsol i and got his receipt for the amount. ' II ( • was unable to produce the receipt afc tlii -5 date. Nonsuited. Same v. Daniel Courtney, claim £4 15s Id, goods eupplied. John McLeod Murray, sworn, stated ho was agent for plaintiffs, and that the amount sued for was still standing in tli«e books-of the late firm of T. W. Cfirr and Sons against defendant. James Soppett, sworn, stated : Was in. the employ of Carr and Sons ag manager of the Waiorongomai store. Account a? shown in ledger not in my ha ndwriting. Entries in counter books nude by me or my son. The ledgers we re always kept at Te Aroha, and the books sent in to be posted up. I believe defendant squared up for everything that he owed for at the Waiorongomai store. Could not say whether he had boon duly credited in the ledger for all tlio sums he had paid from time to time. Defendant in his evidence swore he did not owe the plaintiffs a penny. Nonsuited. J. B. Kilian v. C.Murray, claim £13 2s 1 for board. No appearance. Struck out. Same v. Ladner, claim £3 10s for board. No appearance Struck out. John MeSweeney v. Thorn, is Fenton, claim £2 on for wages.