RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4878, 22 August 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■THIS BAY. (Before H.Senrick, Esq., E.M.) CIVIL SIDE. • Judgments foe Plaintiffs. Thames Harbor Board v. Deep Level Cross G.M.Cp.—Claim, £46 Os 3d, for wharfaga; Mr Miller for plaintiffs; costs, £3 2s6d. : ; Bobbett y. Gray.—Claim, £12 5s lQd, for goods ; Mr Miller for plaiutiff; costs, £1103 6d. '. '■.'■■ '-■ ■':■:■'■ .'■•-■•■ "'-■' : Lamb Bros. r. Empress G.M.Co.— Claim, £14 7s lid,; for goods ; Mr Miller for plaintiffs'; costs, £1 lla 6d. r Moroney v. Green.—Claim> £5 Os 9d, for goods ; costs, 12s. ' Judgment Summonses. .-"';■ Alley v. Kaweri te Wakaiti.—'Amount, £15 18s 6d. Mr Lush for plaintiff. The defendant agreed to pay half the sum claimed within three months, and an adjurniaent for that period was given yto enable him to do so. v

]': Defended Cases. ' M. HENNELLEY y. H. HIDE.' Claim, £12 13s 6d, for cash lenfv Mr Miller for plaintiff, who deposed that defendant had appointed him to dispose of 150 shares in the^JustMn-Tinje claim, naming the lowest pirice for them as £15. Told him that t there were no purchasers, just'then, but he said he \?as anxious to take up some ground at Te Aroha, . and .wanted money, which witness 'advanced—lent him £10, and agreed to send him a cheque for the balance if ho sold defendant's; shares. Defendant left transfers;(produiSed)' with witness. The shares were not sold. The last sale of shares in the company by plaintiff was over a month before defendant placed the shares; in his hands. Applied to Hide for repayment cf the money lent; and he replied that ho was under the impression thpt witness had bought the shares, but he said he would see what he could do.

T6idefendant~did not buy the shares ; advanced the amount by way of loan. In the state of the market at the time, he wbuld not have bought the shares at any priCfe. : '■■..''■ ..'■ ;.;",; ... ,- :; '. - ; '-..'■ ..'■ ./■ . '•; "Henry Hide, the defendant, sworn, stated that he went to the plaintiff,; a sharebrokerj and offered him the shares in qaestiontp siMnforwitness. Hennelly said hi would; ?ee what ha could do. A; few days later'.witriesa saw him, and said he wanted to get away to Te Aroba, and wished to sell the shares as he was leaving the Thames;' Plaintiff then gave him a cheque for £10, and took a transfer of the shares, saying that if lie'did not get £15 (the price named by Hide) for the shares, he Qthe broker) would consider the shares bis. Heard nothing more of the matter for two years and a half, and had not had the transfer returned, to him.

Wm. Hide deposed that his brother had told-him that he had sold the shares to Mr Hennelley, but he was not present at.any dealings between them. "

Judgment was given for plaintiff for £10 with costs £2 Is.

J. B. West, assignee of debts of O. Griffith y. Hikori Eawera.—Claim £4, cash lent. Defendant only admitted her liability to the extent of £1. After hearing evidence, judgment was given for. the amount claimed with costs £2 12s 6d.

Teddy v. JHohepa Hikairo.-^Claim 18s 3d, for goods; Mr LushHfor defendant. After hearing the plaintiff's;evidence, and that of Mr R. N. Smith, and the contention of the defendant that the meat had been returned on account of its being not of good quality, the plaintiff was nonsuited Without COSt.V : :,;•'■.' .: