THE COURTS.

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THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL.

TUESDAY. (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two first-offending inebriates were each convicted and fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment with hard labour. REMAND GRANTED. A remand until November 20th was granted in the case in which Robert Henry Esther, aged 22 years, was charged with stealing six cheque forms, valued at Is, the property of H. P. Mackay. FAILED TO GIVE WAT. "Not guilty" was the plea of Albert Newton (Mr Lascelles) when charged that, being a motorist approaching the intersection of Marshland and Briggs roads, he failed to give way to traffic on the right. Newton was convicted and fined £2 an,d costs. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) CIVIL JURISDICTION. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs by default in the following cases:—Archibald —Still and A. Hunt, £2 3s; Electric Products and Gramophones, Ltd., v. George le Gros, £8 15s; same v. Mrs B. Tallett, £l4 7s 6d; J. Mercer and Sons, Ltd., v. A. Allen, £39 13a 2d; Booth, Macdonald, and Co., Ltd., v. R. R. Watson, £44 18s 9d; State Advances Superintendent v. R. J. Cornwall, £9 14s 9d; Dominion Mercantile Agency, Ltd. (assignees) and the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd. (assignors), v. M. J. Sullivan, £l9 17s; Angas Donaldson v. A. Hanlon, £ll lis; J. Harris v. J. Schultz, £7 lis 8d; Christchurch Battery Co., Ltd., v. H. Stanley, £8 Is 6d: W. H. Simms and Sons, Ltd., v. T. Broderick, £2; C. Jamieson v. Mrs S. Kelly, £4 8s 7d; C. S. Thomas v. Mrs Gladys E. Pengelly, £1 11b 6d; same v. John Smith Andrews, 10s 6d; Hammond and Turner, Ltd., v. R. Irvine, £9 Is; W. E. Munday and Sons, Ltd., v. Mrs Elizabeth Cole, £2 14s lid; Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. (Australasia), Ltd., v. E. Robinson, £2 12s 6d; J. B. Boyce v. Maurice Ealam, £6 13s; E. M. Sheedy v. Ellis Martin, £4 18s; Para Rubber Co., Ltd., v. F. G. Beaumont, £2O Is 6d; International Harvester Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., v. A. Beatty, £64 17s; H. W. Bullivant and Co. v. J. Davis and Co., £3 ss; same v. Mrs S. Mullaney, £1 10s; same v. Mrs M. Rountree, costs only; W. H. Simpson v. J. Henderson, £7 7s; Hunter and Ronaldson v. Bert Seymour, £2 2s; same v. Herbert White, £4' ss; Graham, Wilson, and Smellie v. Leonard James Alexander, £l6 I® B lid; R. Hannah and Co., Ltd., v. L. K. Clarke, £1 16s; Hannah Pugh, as executrix under the will of Martha Flynn v. Walter Baker, £5 and possession of a tenement; 'Ralph Gracie v. J. H. Fullarton, £3. BREACH OF PARTNERSHIP. Alfred Whitworth, of Christchurch, an engineer (Mr G. A. G. Connal), claimed "j! 1 ® George Samuel McCullagh the sum of £22 fis. The statement of claim set out that the plaintiff and defendant were in partnership in a business for the purpose of manufacturing and selling an invention for_ an improved method of sealing- pneumatic WJ 0 punctures, the Ogreement providing that tae plaintiff should manufacture the invention and that the defendant should sell it ana place it on the market, the net profits o,i the partnership being shared between tn parties. The agreement further P ro , that all moneys received by either partner should be paid into an account ot tho banK.

During the period the parties were in business, it was alleged that the plaintiff ma factured material to the value of £42 7S > but the defendant had failed to pay sucn moneys into tho bank or to the account the plaintiff for the proceeds of the sale oi the goods supplied to him. The p also alleged that he paid the sum of as "u as the cost o£ production, advertising patent fees. . , . The plaintiff therefore claimed one-M« « the amount of these two sums, as pro hfaring en evidence the Magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full a •

with costs. NON-SUITED. Mrs V. Bainbridge, of Christchurch (Mr W. White), claimed from Miss J. of Christchurch (Mr W. F. Tracy), ' ®,. • h of £6 15s, it being alleged that a wt » li: had been made and sold to the P ,aintJ the defendant, and for which the sn £G 15s had been paid, was not made accoru ing to the agreed specifications, ana been returned to the defendant. . Plaintiff was non-suited, with costs defendant. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES. Alexander Genet, of Christchurch. on behalf of Richard Victor Cyril Genet, a mi nor (Mr R. Twyneham), claimed from A- (j0 T u '" ; of Sydenham, a jeweller (Mr P. W. Eton), the sum of £7 as damages resulting from a collision between a mo ' or ' c ?jj„' by the defendant and a bicycle ridden y the plaintiff, negligence on the part oi fr m nt being alleged. r»nri*e >.. dney Smith, on behalf of Leslie G Smith, a minor, claimed from A. P°; T _ sura of £2l Is as damages resulting tro collision under similar circumstances. On the first claim, judgment was S for the plaintiff for tho full amount, costs. - i q. Judgment for the plaintiff for £H , and costs was given for the plaintiff on second claim. FOR GOODS SUPPLIED. V. D. Evans, of Christchurch, a turing engineer (Mr C. S. P e "''" s ' claimed from G. Henry and Co., Ltd., e gineers'. merchants (Mr yf. £» Tracy). W

sum of £S 16s, allegedly being the purchase price of one sawbencb sold and delivered by the plaintiff to'the defendant. After evidence had been heard, plaintiff was non-suited, with costs to defendant.