ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 6

ELTHAM.

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was held at Eltham yesterday, Mr. A. M. Mowlem presiding. Frederick Crawford, for leaving a motor-car on the road at night time withlout lights, was fined £1 and 7s costs. CIVIL CASES. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—E. Peddie and E. Nicol! v. William Sutton, £22 end £3 Is costs; County of Eltham v. F. J. Bennett, £29 9s lOd and £2 17s costs; same v. G. B. and L. B. Parsons, '£44 and £2 17s fid costs; Albert Wm. Holder v. R. F. Thomas, £36 Ils 8d and £4 7s 6d costs; Newton King, Ltd. v. A. Hockey. £ll6 3s lOd and £6 8s costs; R. E. Williams v. A. Hoppy, £49 | 16s 2d and £4 16s costs; same v. N. F. Meads, £5 6s 5d and £2 9s fid cos to; ! Powell and Shepherd v. A. Hockey, £2B I 10s ami £3 Is fid costs; C. S. Hill v. I John Penny, £3 8s 5d- and £1 6s fid 'costs; W. A. Lind v. N. F. Meads, £l6 Is Id and £3 3s costs; George Gibson v. John Penny, £ll4 and £6 10s costs. In the judgment summons case, James Arthur v. Henry Davison (£22 2s Cd), defendant was ordered to pay the ! amount, in default 21 days’ imprison- ' ment, warrant to be suspended for 14 I days. An application by Walter Charles i Clement for the attachment of certain . moneys payable to Arthur Julian by the Eltham County Council in respect to a contract was refused. DEFENDED CASES. Judgment was given for plaintiff in ; the ease C. A. Cooper and C. White, claim for £25 9s and £3 Bs. costs. James Henry Bodie sued Archie Robertson (Mr. A. Coleman) for the sum of , £l4 3s for repairs to a motor-cycle, i Plaintiff gave evidence as to repairing | defendant’s motor-cycle for h'im. The ’ ( motor-cycle was an old one made up ' from parts of two or thrge cycles. De- i 1 fondant, when he took the repaired cycle. I gave plaintiff a cheque which was dis- ; honored. He understood from what deI fendant said that h|? intended the machine to be overhauled. Corroborative evidence was given by Lawrence James Lees, an assistant at Bodie’s .-hop. Witness added that 'defendant seemed satisfied when he Look the machine. Mr. Coleman (for defendant) admitted the contract, wh-icb concerned only the painting and cleaning of the cycle and the cleaning of the carburettor. Archie Robertson gave evidence that he had taken the motor-cycle to Bodie to be cleaned and repainted and to hlave the carburettor cleaned. When he relured for the cycle Bodie said that he had had to do a great deal tb it. ‘Witness told Bodie that he Had not given instructions for such extensive repairs to be made, but he gave Bodie a cheque for the amount, £l4. Next day he stopped the cheque and then went to Eltham to see Bodie. He did not have a compression tap on his cycle and was certain that the compression tap produced was not taken from his cycle. Judgment 1 was delivered for t-he plaintiff for thie amount claimed and £3 6s costs.