RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 655, 7 May 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Friday, Mat 6. (Before J. Giles, Esq., E.M.) Angus Hay v. William Collings.— Claim for £3 9s for bread supplied. Plaintiff stated in evidence that defendant was one of a party of three mining at Hatter's Terrace, the names of the others were Cowan and M'lntyre. The debt had been incurred in January and February, 1869, and the defendant was then living in the same tent with M'lntyre and Cowan. M'lntyre ordered the goods in the first instance and defendant also told him, when working in tbe tunnel, to serve him. Defendant had recognised the debt, and when asked for the money had made no objection to the account, but said he had no money. Defendant said that for a week or ten days after January Ist, when the account in dis-

pute commenced, he was at the Buller He denied having lived with M'lntyre and Cowan as a general thing, and when stopping in their tent he purchased his owh provisions. "When plaintiff brought his account he referred him to Cowan, as he had nothing to do with it. Plaintiff was nonsuited. Bame v. James and Thomas French. —ln each case judgment was confessed. Whyte and Pirie v. Pitzgerald, and same v. Templeton.—Judgment in each case by default..