MAGISTRATES COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 110, 17 August 1910, Page 3

MAGISTRATES COURT.

. DEBT CASES. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. "S.' FiUherberi, S.M., judgment by default was entered in the following cases:—L. D. Nathan and Co. (Mr. I'. H. Weston) v. F. Gilmore, claim £1 10s and costs (ss); S. L. Humphries and Co. (Mr. P. E. Wilson) v. Joseph Cody and Lizzie Cody, claim £26 3s 3d and costs (£1 (is); Newton King (Mr. Wright) V. Chas. Corkin, claim £5 17s Id and costs (£1 3s Gd); L. D. 'Nathan and Co. (Mr. C. Mr. S. L. Humphries and Co. (Mr. F. E. Wilson) v. Thomas Walsh, a judgment summons for £3 IsO Cd, the debtor said he had done no wuric since the judgment was obtained—over uwo years ago. His wife kept a boardinghouse, and he lived there. He collected a shilling or two now and then, which kept him in tobacco, and so on. That mono'; might amount to eight snillings a week. He didn't drink beer, but drank whisky, because he was ordered to do so by his doctor. Mr. Wilson: Whete do you get. the money? Debtor: My wife gives it to m«, if you want to know. Mr. Wilson suggested that the eight shillings a week should have allowed sufficient margin for paying the debt, even after providing the ueotor with tobacco and matches. "Don't you know," he continued, "that a shilling a week would have paid the debt long ago?" The Debtor: Mr. Wilson, 1 m suuering from my heart. I've been under Dr. Walker for eighteen months. So please don't excite me. Ask Dr. Walker; he'll tell you of my condition.

Counsel laughed. ''There's nothing to uiugi. about," said the witness, who went 031 to explain t'hat he had made a mistake in saying that he collected eight shillings a week. He didn't believe, now, that lie had received as much as three shillings a week. He had had a hotel business, and was still collecting outstanding debts. Some were good, and some were bad.

Tlie Magistrate, after a few more questions, remarked: "I think I must make an order against you, for I think you've had enough money to have paid this money more than once." An order was made for payment of the full amount of £3 10s 6d within a month; in default, seven days' imprisonment. In the judgment summons case, J. Havden v. Claude P. G. Hoskin, which had been adjourned a few weeks ago to give the debtor an opportunity to reduce his liability, there was no appearance of judgment debtor, and an order was made for payment of the > all amount claimed, £3 9s, in seven aays; in default, seven days' imprisonment.

AX 1 IMPECUNIOUS GOBBLER. Wood and Zem'ba (Mr. Standish) v. John F. fiieese, claim £4 10s 7d, judgment debt. The debtor said he was a boot repairer, in business at Waitara. He produced a small account book, which he said was the only book he kept. The S.M.: You'd 'better keep out of the Bankruptcy Court, then. That book wouldn't pass you. Debtor said that he had a wife and two children, and he had been laid up for four months. A man named McKay kept the shop open for him, taking the whole of the earnings. He was quite willing to pay the, money when he could*

The S.M. said he could not make an order under the circumstances.