RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3599, 9 July 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY.

(Before fl. Kenrick, Esq., R.M.)

CIVIL SIDE. Judgments fob Piaintiffj

William Wilson v. Ahi Pepene. Claim £5 Is, goods supplied.—Marshall r. fl. N. Tizzard. Claim £20, with costs, goods supplied. (Mr Miller for plaintiff.)— John JojatT. John Johnson, claim £18 Is for groceries, with costs. (Mr Miller appeared for plaintiff.) Adjoubned Cases.

Lichfield v. Cray. Mr Miller appeared for the plaintiff and objected to any further adjournment until the cos Is of the last adjournment had been paid.—Mr Brassey agreed to pay tho costs—The case was adjourned till next court day —- Mcllhone T. Waraki. —Same v. ELaikuti. —Foss v. Bobinson. Mr Brassey said he was under the impression that this case was done with. He would ask for an adjournment to make enquiries. Adjourned accordingly.—Wilkinson v.fiowe. —Miller v. JJowe.—Bobbett r. Stephenson (until Monday next.) In this case the defendant confessed judgment conditionally, and offered to pay 10s per month. This the solicitor for the plaintiff (Mr Miller) could not accept. Casks Stbuck Oct.

Smith v. Mclnenney.—Foss r. Arnold. —Foss v, Nelson.—Foss v. Cooper.— Wilkinson v. Pulleine. Defended Cases. dendeb v. kabbell. Mr Brassey appeared for plaintiff, Mr Miller for defendant.

The plaintiff claimed £2 7s, value of kauri slabs illegally removed by the defendant. An amount of 7s was paid into Court by the defendant as value of the. slabs, but this plaintiff would not accept—hence the action.

Mr Farrell, being sworn, said he was the defendant in this action. Me recollected cutting some timber lately on Punga Flat. He remembered the tree being cut. It was split into slabs. These slabs he sold to the Whau G.M. Co. Mr Ferguson, the manager, only agreed to give him £2 per hundred, instead of £2 10s as he first promised. The slabs might have been cut a month. As soon as the slabs were cut up he sold them. The slabs were of an inferior kind. He employed the young men to cut the slabs. There were about seventy or eighty of the slabs. The plaintiff complained to witness about using his tree. He did not threaten to pitch him into the creek. The tree had been lying for two years on the Flat.

Re-examined by Mr Brassey : I did not tell plaintiff to do his d- dest.

Henry Dender said it was six or eight! weeks since he saw the defendant taking the slabs away. He asked defendant what he was going to do with hia timber, and the defendant said : " They are not your slabs ; you never owned a kauri Sree in your life." He said he should summons defendant if he did not pay him for the timber, which the latter agreed to do, but did not go near plaintiff- for three weeks. He claimed £2 7a as the value of the slabs. He had no ill-feeling at all against the defendant. Judgment for plaintiff for £1 4s 6d; costs, £2 ss. The Court then rose,