CIVIL SIDE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3148, 21 March 1879, Page 2

CIVIL SIDE.

Judgments fob Piaintiffs.

In the following cases judgments were giten for plaintiffs:-—W." Wilson and Co. y. Mrs Corßett.—Claim, £3 b's sd, goods, and costs 15s. Same t. Stackpole.— Cliim, £2 7s, goods, and costs 15s. Same r. J. W. E. Guilding.—Claim, £3 15s,

goods, and costs 15s. F. A. Pulleine v. Moon.—Claim, £8 9s 3d, goods, and coats 19s. Deeble v. E. J. Moore.-—Claim, £4 8s 7d, balance of accounts, and costs 15s (immediate execution granted). A. Fleming v. A. Bagnall.—Claim, 4s, Borough rates, and costs ss. Same v. C. Coolahan. —Claim, £3 11s, Borough rates, and costs 6s. Same v. O. D. Grant.—Claim, £1 12s, Borough rates, and costs 15s. j Judgment Summons. W. WILSON AND CO. V. M. WHALAN. Claim, £2 ss. Defendant ordered to pay 5s per we9k, or one month's imprisonment. THOBPE V. GOBDON. Claim, £14 6s, damages through defendant's dog killing certain sheep, the property of plaintiff. Mr Brassey for plaintiff; Mr Miller for defendant. Edward J. Thorpe, sworn, deposed— That he was a farmer at Owbaroa, and in February last bad occasion to leave his farm. On returning he missed some 26 sheep, and found 20 dead carcases lying about the farm. He had no dogs about the farm. All the sheep—Bf—were in aa enclosed paddock before he left. The dead sheep were mangled, And appeared to have been badly used. , On his return he found a dog worrying the sheep, and he caught the dog and destroyed it. It was a brindled one-eyed bitch. Before destroying it he sent word to defendant to come and see it, which he did after the dog was destroyed. Defendant said he had lent the dog to a friend, and thought he was not liable. He had lent it to Acting. The value «f the sheep is £14 6s. Defendant had promised to pay for the sheep. Witness offered to take £10 for the damage if paid at once. By Mr Miller—There was a pup three or four months old. He saw the dog worry one sheep. I never charged Acting with his dog having killed some of the sheep. (Mr Miller here handed witness an account to Acting for damage done by the dog.) He had no objection to Acting paying for the sheep, as he bad borrowed (Gordon's dog. Gordon did not say he ,had given the dog to Acting; Only pig dogs will kill sheep. Witness only heard Acting had borrowed the dog. ißy Mr Brassey—l sent Acting the account because Gordon told me to. I know of no dogs in the locality that worry sheep. , - Alice: Robinson, a little girl, deposed to seeing a brindled slut .worrying Mr Thorp's" sheep. There was a small pup also there. .She saw some dead sheep, both before and after she saw the dog. She saw the dog with Acting about a month before the sheep were worried. She had'never seen the dog with Gordon, who lived at Waitekauri, four miles from Owharoa. The dogs were always with Acting.. .. . .. ':■ - ./.■! . •;■•' ■'■: ■■ ■■ 'Herbert Gordon, sworn, deposed he was a farm laborer, and had once; owned a brindled slut. He gave, it away to Acting in October, 1877, and it had never been in his possession since. He never lent the dog to Acting, and never,told Thorp that he had., He never asked Thorp to send a joint account to Acting; nor never offered to settle for the sheep. Counsel on both sides having been heard, the Bench then gave a verdict for defendant. Costs £3 is.