RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1161, 16 October 1883, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Temuka—Monday, Oct, 16,1883.

[Before J. Beswick. Esq., R.M.] DRUNK AND INCAPABLE. Herman Mahnke was brought up charged with having been drunk and incapable in the public street. Constable Morton asked for the accused to be remanded for medical treatment until 10 o'clock on Thursday, when he would require him as a witness. The accused was accordingly remanded. The accused asked to be sent to the hospital, but the Magistrate said he could not order it.

civil cases

Judgment by default was given in the following cases :—W Davidson, Trustee in the estate of J Langskail, v. T Turner—Claim £2 2s 6d ; Same v. W Eagleston—Claim 19s; Same v. Friars —Claim 13s.

G Miller vG Meredith, junior,—Claim £6.

Mr Aspinall appeared for the defendant.

This was the balance of £2J, the price of building a cottage, and £1 for horse hire.

In reply to Mr Aspinall the plaintiff stated that the first agreement with respect to the building of tho house was £l3, but it was altered to £2l. The balance of £6 remained due, and the defendant never disputed it. George Meredith, junior, stated that the price was L2l, and that when he entered the house a sum of LlO remained due. The plaintiff refused to let witness into the house until the LlO was paid. Witness told him he was not entitled to it until he had finished the contract. The house was not painted —it was only oiled. The plaintiff said he would take L 5 out in carting lime, and that if he got the other L 5 he would finish the contract. The hearth fell down.

In reply to plaintiff, witness stited that he supplied paint and oil, and that Mr Brown toid him he had sufficient paint aod oil to paint half a township. Witness also admitted having promised to pay plaintiff L 3 not long since.

W G Rutland, builder, Temuka, had seen the cottage. There was a ooat of oil on it but no white lead had been mixed with it. The chimney appeared to have been built of brickbats. Tho metres of all the architraves were half an inch apart, the doors were not upright, and in fact it was the ' sloppiest job ' ho had ever seen. He believed the house would have to be pulled down to make a good job of it. A sum of LlO would have been sufficient to make a good job of it from the beginning.

In reply to the plaintiff, witness said he did not know that Meredith agreed to the bricks that were in the chimney.

Judgment was given for L 3, the amount which the defendant had admitted he offered to pay. The Court then adjourned.