R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3116, 30 January 1889, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

CARTERTON-TUESDAY. ! (Before S. Von Stunner, R,Mr) •■ 1 : • Matilda' Turner v Alfred Turner, Application for-a prohibition order. '• Order made as applied for, AN UNHAPPY JIAltlilAOB, • -Margaret Ridgway v -W.- Hidgway. '. Mr Skipper for complainant, and TJr. Beard' lor defendant." This is a case ■ r iir which complainant: seeks-ifoi'.: a : maintenance herself and •. child, und also order.■■■■■■

•The .complainant deposed: I am\ the lawful wife of defendant and liavo< been married* fourteen - months aud 1 . have one child four - months old, and . my husband has frequently refused to supply common .necessities, and wlion I have asked bim to buy bread ■ for the house lie lias refused, , both ibefore the child was born-and since,. 11 am not living with my husband at' ■ ■present, lam living-with my par- • j tints, and I have asked him to let me < i have my clothes and tho baby's, but lie lias refused; He is able to work iif lie has a mind to, He has never illused me, but the complaint I make : i against him is' for not ' supplying me with proper necessities, ; To Mr Beard: Ho lias had money in his pocket when he has refused tobuy proper necessities. My parents • supplied me'with the'.clothes ! have. - I never refused to take money when offered to me. .v.. -..

To the Court: I sent for my. parents and they came and; took .me away. ■ My hußbaud is not given to diink neither has lie illused me. Mrs/ Trotter, mbtber. of the com.' plainant deposed: I have gone up every week: aud • have., repeatedly'! taken food, as I. saw there, was not sufficient for a woman suckling a child, and "before her confinement,she was not provided with proper food. I was in the house three weeks during my daughter's .confinement. Her husband had money at the time but refused to supply proper necessities, All the clothes she had were supplied to Lev before her marriage, and the baby's clothes I gave to her, To Mr Beard: When her husband got better of tlie low fever he left her. in the house with hardly , any food, ana went to live with his mother. Mr Beard addressed the .Court on behalf of his client.and the order was refused. -

' •> CIVIL CASES, A. -Wiley v. P, Peterson. Mr Beard for defendant.—This is a claim for £O, being balauce due for building a house, the defendant refused to pay until he (the plaintiff) made the roof watertight. . -.' Thomas Bennett deposed that theI building was not properly shingled and the weather boards were badly put on, and that it would cost some seven or eight pounds to make it habitable.. Jiidgineut, for. the, plaintiff for one pound without costs. P. A. Eriokson v, \Vi ilabupuka, claim for repairs to buggy £15125. Mr Beard for plaintiff, Mr Pownali for defendant.. ; :■ : .< .Plaintiff deposed the work: was. done in (i workmanlike manner/ and the' defendant had never refused payment, the job. was .taken -ovor from R. Crawford when he sold his

business, the .defendant's plea was that he made the agreement'with' • Crawford for the repairing of the buggy and the price was-to be £lO.

K.;' Crawfird - deposed' that he originally took the . buggy to repair and the price was to be £lO, and' the plaintiff undertook, to repair the wood work, for M.—R; Crawford', recalled, admitted, to receiving V. pound from the defendant for brings ing the _buggy in from Gladstone.—. Judgment for with costs. 80s, This concluded the business and the Court adjourned. ', - j