MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1294, 24 November 1911, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) CLAIM THAT FAILED. LAND SALE ACROSS HARBOUR. Judgment was delivered in the ca.se in which Haroourt and Co. had sued the Wellington Steam Ferries Company for £S 10s. as commission diie on the sale of a property at Day's Bay. Mr. J. C. Peacock had appeared for the plaintiffs, aud'Mr. R. M. Watson for the defendants. The claim had been disputed on the ground that Haroourt and Co. were not instrumental in selling the property. _ ; His Worship held that the plaintiffs had not proved their case, and he. gave judgment for the .defendants.

THE UNDEFENDED DEBT LIST. Tn the following cases judgment was entered for the plaintiffs by default:— Thf Commercial Agency, Ltd., as assignees of Sheffield and Co. v.- G. U. Whale, costs only, J!1 4s. lid. ; Alexander Sample v. Patrick J. Rice, JE2 6s. and costs, 10s.; John Edward Jenkinson v. W. Sheridan. «£o (is. 6d. and ;£1 3s. Gd.; Walter Whiting v. Thomas M'Kinle.v, .£5 19s. Gd., and lis.; D. Jameson v. G. Fernandos, i! 4 ss. Gd., and 10s.; Dalgety and Co., Ltd. v. F. G. Foster, J!l3 6s. 9d., ami ,£2 4s. Gd.; C. W. Wycherly and Sons v. Uina Taipna, .£1 15s. 6d., and 10s.; the Commercial Agency, Ltd., as assignees of Bing, Harris, and Co., Ltd. v. E. Lidstone and Co., .£67 12s. 7d„ and <£i 55.; Yeitch and Allan v. J. J. O'Brien, ,fc".l2s. 3d., and ,£1 4s. 6d.; same v. Vv. Ashmore, »G3 lis., and 10s.; J. Solomon v. J. Cochrane, ,£9 65., and £1 3s. 6d ; the Empire Oil Co., Ltd. v. Lyons and Co., £i lis., and ifil 3s. 6d.; and the Wellington Drivers' Industrial Union of Workers v. Steve Bray, <£1 35., and ss. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. On. a judgriient summons, E. Henry was ordered •to pay £o ss. to W. G: Wholesale Manufacturing Co., Ltd., by December .7, .in,.default .ten . days' im- •• '—■■■■'! . POLICE CASES. ' For insobriety,"-Christina Lawson was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment,. and Isidore Jacobus was-fine £2 and prohibited. ■ ' ■'