MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3170, 22 August 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POI.ICE AND OlVlii CASES. Mi\ b. G. Ileid, S.M., presided a! Iho Magistrate's Couiii yesterday. Three articled seamen on an oversea vessel, named Francis H. Young, Stanley Waygood, and Frederick St. George Gibson, wero charged with unlawfully deserting from the ship. Young pleaded guilty, his excuse being that ho wished to get away ; so that ho could support his mother. Ho i was senlenood to seven days' imprisonment. Waygood a.nd Gibson pleaded not euilty, mid were defended by Mr. H. F. O'Leary. Gibson, who gavo evidence, said they left tho ve&sel early' on Saturday morning, believing that tho Pliip would sail until the following day. When l-hcy went to tho •wharf in tho afternoon tho vessel had ! gone. Ho maintained that ho had 110 intention of deserting, for by losing liis berth ho had lost. £15 in wages. He and tlie others went to the police and put the ease beforo them. Waygood and Gibson wero convicted and ordered to forfeit two days' pay cach. For insobriety a flrpt offender was convicted and discharged. OIVIIj CASES. : Judgment was gken for plaintiff by | default in tho following cose*:—Remington and K-oneo Agency v. Michael Deinuth £5. j costs £1 Os. 6d.: Denhard Automatic Bakery i Co., Ltd., v. Norman Mcech, £1 16s. Id., costs 65.; 11. Reynolds and Co., Ltd., v. flpinfts and Miller, Ltd., £4, costs 55.; !R. o,nd 15. Tingcy and Co., Ltd., v. R. J. Nesliitt, £5 2s. 4d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; H. H. Tombs, Ltd, v. H. Holyoako £4 10s., costs 10s.; Harold W. Brown and Co. v. F. G. Warring, £24 18s. fd., costs £2 145.; Wellington Deposit and Mortgage Co., Ltd.. v. Mrs. P. .ticoringe, £6 155., costs Bs.; Hutt County Council v. To Puni family, £39 os. 3d., costs £2 145.; same v. Matcno Tauwharo family, £47 ss. 3d., costs £3 6s. 6d. J UDGMUNT SUMMONS. Judgment summons cases wero dealt' with as follow:—C. Kmeny was ordered to pay Halkmstein Bros., Ltd.. £3 Bs. 6d. by October • 28. in default to undergo seven days' imprisonment, and Wm. Langlcy Moms, was ordered to pay Bunny and Ayson £2 Is. 3d. by September 28, or serve three days in gaol. DEFENDED OASES. Mary Downey, widow, for whom. Mr. C. W. Tanner appeared, proceeded against Mrs. D. 0. George, represented by Mr. A. Dunn, to recover £19 135., alleged to ho diw as rent of a house known as No.-1 Wallace Street. Plaintiff was non-suited on the ground that she had let the house to a man who was the actual tenant, and not the defendant. Whitcombo and Pyni," motor engineers, claimed from Ernest W. Biggs, taxi-driver, the sum of £130 15s. 6d., alleged to bo duo as deposit v on a motor-car, arrears of biro and damage. After a partial* hearing tho case was adjourned to Friday. Mr. E. A. Howie appeared for plaintiffs.