RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3431, 20 December 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Yesterday. (Before H. Kenrick, Esq., R.M.J CIVIL SIDE. Judgment poe Plaintiffs. HOl'B V. SCANLAN. Claim, £2 14s, groceries. Jno. Hope deposed that last year he supplied Mrs Scanlan and her children with goods Io the amount claimed. Ellen Scnnlan, deposed—l admit I owe something, but not so much as I am sued for. Judgment for plaintiff. FLEMING V. FABIiEY. • l Claim, ss, rate 3. Andrew Fleming deposed—l served a rate notice on defendant's land in Upper Albert street on the 13th September. The rate has not been paid. Hugh Farley deposed—l removed the house in .February. I have ,never received a notice that I owed a rate. Judgment for plaintiff with costs, ss. SHOETIiAND.S.M.CO. V. MCIAtrGIIN. Claims £12 10a, timber. ■v Andrew McLaughlin deposed ■tbatjhe had received timber to the amount claimed. He gave an order on the County Council. ''" Chas. Stephenson, manager of the mill, deposed—l supplied the timber to defendant, who bud a contract from the Count}' Council. He gave mo an order, which I priMented tio the County Clerk, who informed me that defendant had no money owing 'to him. I received the order on the sth end presented it on the Bth inst. This closed plaintiff's case.Andrew .McLaughlin deposed—lf last witness had presented the order when I gave it to him it would have been paid, as I drew over £12 from the Council three days after. Judgment for plaintiff with coita £1 18s. WIGHT V. MCILHONE. Claim, £5, damage to a horse. Richard Wight deposed—l own a horse. On Friday last Mr Mcllhone hired it from me to go to Tapu. When he brought it back it was badly bruised and cut, and appeared as if it had been roughly bundled. John JNicholls deposed—The horse is now in my stable. It is not fit for work. It was worth about £16. I saw Mcllhone ride away" in company with a Maori. He told me that at Tararu be had changed with the native. Philip" Perry, Jno. Blackmore, and C. Bead also gave evidence. For the defence— Hugh f Mcllhone deposed—l deny : that I promised Wight not to allow anyone else to ride the horse. When passing the Kuranui the horse shied, and I changed with the Maori. The Maori had a small supplejack, but he only hit the animal two or three times. He was never out of my sighi. We never rode at all fast Herewini te Moananui gare similar evidence. • John Quinlivan and Isaac, a native, also gare evidence. Judgment for £3 and costs.

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