RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 149, 1 July 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Friday. (Before Thomas Beckhum, Esq., R.M.) The usual weekly sitting was held to-day, when his Worship disposed of the following ■business :— GOLDEN CROWN EXTENDED G.M.C. V. SHOVE. THE SAME V. MF.LTON. Mr. Lusk accepted a nonsuit in these cases. SCOTT V. CONNELEY. Claim £3 2s 6d. This was a claim for board and lodging. The defendant did not appear, and judgment went by default. king v. lml'mahox. Claim, 10s. This was a claim for carting two loads of furniture. Judgment for plaintiff. KENNEDY V. WATKINS. Mr. Wilson said that in this case the summons had not been served. The defendant had become bankrupt. The learned gentleman complained that tie Clerk of the Court did not fill up the summons. He did not think it the duty of attorneys to fill up sum- ' 'nouses. Air. Lodge referred the Resident Magistrate •to the Act. It was not the duty of the clerk ; to fill up summonses. M'CASr.IN V. EEATON. Claim, £9 15s. Air. Wyi.n appeared for the plaintiff, i The debt was incurred for carting, i The defendant is a brickmaker, and was employed by Bernard Kane, from whom he , received £15 to ,620 a fortnight. His Worship: Why do you not pay this poor man his money ? I will imprison you if you do not. Air. Wynn on bbhalf of the plaintiff, said he would consent to take £1 a week, untd his debt was paid off Ordered to pay £1 a week. KEERIDGE V. GREY. Mr. Joy ap; eared for the plaintiff, Air. Wilson for the defendant, who pleaded not ! indebted. The plaintiff was engaged by the defendant as an assistant cook at the Northern Club on the 17th of February. The secretary of the club knew nothing of the engagement bei tween the plaintiff and pefendant. The quos- • tion was whether the c gagement was made by defendant on behalf of the club. The , plaintiff remained in the service of the club ■' after de endiint left. The defendant swore that the plaintiff was engaged on behalf of tho club; that he had a'dhority to engage the servants under him. Never said anything to plaintiff to make him believe otherwise than that he was tho servant of the club. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £3. LEE V. ROLFE. Claim, £5 2s 6d. Mr. J y for plaintiff; Mr. Sheehan for the - defendant. This was a matter of account. The particulars were defective, aiid his Worship ordered that they should be amended, and the case was adjourned to next Court day. BACON V. YOUNG. Claim, £t Is. 3d. Mr. Wynn for the plaintiff; Mr. Joy for the defendant. \ Two pounds fifteen shillings had been paid .into Court.

The defence was that a greater amount was charged than was clue. Judgment for plaintiff. JUDGMENTS FOR PLAINTIFFS. Scott v. Donnelly, £3 2s. Id. ; Dennison v. Atkinson, £5 18s!; Tararu Battery v. Long, £2 10s.; the same v. Kene, £5 ; Bucklaud v. .Stretch, £17 165.; Red Queen v. Walker, £15, calls; Wiseman v. Vivian, £12 14s. 6d. ; Ellison v. Bell, £6 17s. Bd.; Rattray v. Hamlin, £4 13s. 7d.; Rattray v. Coates, £4 lis. 3d.; Shamrock Gold Mining Company v. Daniel, and Carlzon, £10, calls; Jackson v. Gomez, £4 10s. 4d. Mr. Wynn applied for a speedy summons against the master of the ship Inflexible, at the suit of Owen and Graham. The claim was for £5 odd, incurred by short delivery. The summons was granted, to be heard at half-past 10 o'clock Saturday morning.