RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1024, 22 November 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Tuesday, Novembek. 18. (Before Joseph Giles. Esq./L^.M.) CITIL CASES. George White v. E. Butier.---Mr Fisher for plaintiff. No appearance of defendant. Claim of £1 13s, money paid and work performed. Tho debt was proved and judgment given for full amount, costs 9s, and counsel's fee ono guniea. Jules Simon v. 0. Yogcl.—Claim for £2 14s Gd, goods sold and delivered. Judgment confessed. James M'Gavin v. W. C. Graham. —Mr Shapter for plaintiff. Claim for £4 lis 6d, expenses as subpoenaed witness in case Graham y. Field and another, boat freight, and money lent to defendant at his request. Ten shillings and costs had been paid into court; beyond which sum the defendant pleaded not indebted. After hearing a confused jumble of evidence, tho Court held that the only item clearly shown as due to the plaintiff was 8s for mileage from Addison's Flat, the remaining items were doubtful, and the case had evidently been brought on for hearing by reason of previous litigation. Judgment given for Bs, in addition to 10s paid into Court, aud costs. Counsel's fee disallowed. Patrick Byrne v. Thomas M'Kenzie. —No appearance of defendant. Claim for £ls, goods sold and delivered. Judgment for amount claimed and costs 295. WE3TPOET AYARDEN'S COURT. Tuesday, November 19. (Before J. Giles, Esq., Warden.) Sleigh and Langley v. Michael Sullivan and party.—Complaint against Sullivan aud party for unlawfully removing some fifteen yards of fluming, the property of defendants, from headrace attached to dam at Addison's, whereby damage had been caused to the extent of £5. Complainants claiming that the damage should be made good, and that defendants should be ordered to desist from further interference. The defendants denied the allegation. Evidence was given to prove that defendants in making a race heading towards that of complainauts had, instead of fluming over complainants' race, cut through it and had taken away certain slabs and timber and used them in their own tail race. Defendants pleaded that the race in question had been abandoned. Judgment given for 40s damages, the defendant's to be relieved from payment if withiu three days they made good the fluming in a maimer to satisfy complainants. APPLICATIONS. Timothy Calum. —Special sites for flood machine at Deadman's Creek, and for dam and flood machine, at Christmas Terrace. Granted. John Peacock. —For two-thirds of dams alleged to be abandoned by Jas. Garland and Henry Wakefield, on Wilson's Lead, Waite's Pukihi. Objected to by Frederick Eobinson, as being in present possession. Refused. Aiex. Simpson.—For head water race abandoned in Deadman's Creek, Back Lead. Granted conditionally on Bartman and party being allowed to take 40 inches of water from creek by same raco. Bartman and Others.—For head water race from Anderson's dam, Deadman's Creek. Granted, as a branch of Simpson's raco from point of juuetion to claim, with right to forty inches of water.