MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 65, 5 August 1914, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

■SEW PLYMOUTH SITTINGS. At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court. New Plymouth yesterday, ill' A. Crooke, S.M., presided. A DOMESTIC DRAMA. The concluding, act ill -i domestic drama which has, in the shape of litigation between the Cooper Bios., occupied much of 'the time of the Court lately, wa* reached when llis Worship ile ivered llis reserved decision in the case of Wheeler 'lumber Cooper v. Joilin Henry Wakeliitd Cooper, which was heard in the Court last week. His Vi orship held that the rent was part of the partnership assets, and Coverel by the indemnity but he non-suited the plaintill' on the grounds that he ha.l not established h;s ownership of the goods distrained to jay rent. As l» the £2 llis paid to Gilbert, plaintill' was lion-suited on the grounds Unit it [mid not on behalf of defendant but on beha.f of Daniel Cooper. Costs amount ing to £4 Ids were allowed. JUDCjMEN'f SUMMOJfS. In the ease tif tjiji New Plymouth General laborers Union. (Mr Weston) v. Henry Busby, judgment debtor said lie haci to support only his wife and daughter, aged fourteen veil tv. From March 23 to July | SWilWll &V. jCs. lie produced bin own I memorandum book in support of liis I statement. It had cost him all lie earned to live. He had been ill for twenty-three weeks. He could not pay exactly what other debts he had, but. I lie had. received ia. doctor's bill for £2O two or three months ago. No order . was made. In the case of the. New Plymouth Borough Council (Mr K. 11. Quilliam) v. Walter Smith, the judgment debtor said that all his three children were at school. His rent was £1 per year and his living cost him all he earned. Judgment was given January last and in the following three months, which were tHic- best in the year for fishing, ]ie made little. " Prom June 16, when lie went to work for the Railway Department, he had earned about £B. Questioned by His Worship, debtor said that his father, to whom he sold Ms fish, kept no account of the money paid to him. He was merely speaking from knowledge of his father's methods and" had never afked liirn for a statement. His Worship remarked that Ire was not satisfled with the witness and adjourned the case to enable further enquiries to be made, BY, DKFAUI-fT. Judgment by default was given in the case of the Brougham Street Hall Co., Ltd. v. Wni. Anderson Rcantlebury—costs only. £1 lis.