MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 121, 15 February 1929, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

BY-LAW AND CIVIL CASES

By-law cases were beard before Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Conway Williams and Thomas Shields were each fined £1 for passing a stationary tram. Leslie Dyer was fined 10s. for negligently riding a motor-cycle. ‘ Allowing stock to wander cost Patrick Donoghue £1; Albert Archer, James Stellln, and Henry Wolland, 10s. each; ,and James Ernest Lowndes, 10s., costs only.

On charges of driving in a dangerous manner, Frederick Theodore Badcock was fined £4; Horace Haycock, £2; Stanley Jepson, Frederick Thomas, and Allen Cooper, £1 each. For not having a driver's license, Ireton Birchnail, Douglas Hall. Walter Greathead, and Claude Mallard, were each fined £2; George Wearne, £1; Henry Hill and James Smith, 10s. each. Parking his car more than twelve inches from the kerb cost David S. Craig £l. Thomas Wilkinson was fined £l, and James Osborn 10s„ for not having warning devices on their motor-cycles. Samuel T. Silver was fined 10s. for allowing a vehicle to obstruct the entrance to an hotel. CIVIL LIST Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M.; in the following undefended civil cases:— Electrical Supplies, Ltd. v. L. S. Jacobson, £2 12s. 6d., costs £1 3s. 6d.; Charles William Stewart, as liquidator of C. W. Stewart and Co. Ltd. v. D. McPherson, £42 7s. 10d., costs £4 Ss. fid.: Commercial Agency, Ltd. and W. H. Nash v. K. T. McLean, £35 ss. 4d., costs £4 2s. fid.: M. Michelin and Co. Ltd. v. S. Wheatley, costs only, £1 10s.; Reginald Collins Ltd. t. H. Gray, £9, costs £1 14s. fid.; Gibsons and Paterson Ltd. v. Emily .Wallace (sep-

arate estate), £l2’Bs. 2d., costs £2 145.; Lawrence ail'd' Hanson Electrical Co. Ltd: v. Maystone Bros., £42 Ills. 2d., costs £4 Is. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and Bing, Harris and Co. Ltd. v. C. -IV. -Penman (separate estate), £6’Os. 4d., costs £1 10s. fid.; Ernest Dawson Ltd. v. N. Beck, £4 7s. 6d., costs £1 7s. Cd.; I. Wilmshurst v, Timothy O’Regan, £5 155., costs £1 14s. fid.; M. Michelin and Co. Ltd. v. Owen M. Williams, £5O 3s. 4d., costs £4 Ils. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd., and J.. 1 Johnston v. N. C. Allan, £2 6s. fid., costs £1 3s. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and James Johnston v.. V. J. Brown, £4 10s., costs £1 7s. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and A. Stark and Co. v. R. Henderson, £5, costs £1 ss. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. anfl J. Johnston v. P. E. Herbert, £5, costs £1 3s. 6d.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and Barrett and Co. Ltd. v. I. H. Johnston, £2 17s. 3d., costs. £1 3s. fid.: R. M. Glennie and Co. v. A.- Kerr, £2 15s. 5d., costs £1 4s. 6d.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and A. Hatrick and Co. Ltd. v. John Kelly, £34 14s. 4d., costs. £4 Is. (id.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and Bing Harris and Co. Ltd. v. Frank Kurth, £5 65.. costs £1 10s. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and James Johnston v. W. MeCullogb, £2 10s., costs £1 6s. 6d.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and J. Johnston v. Rev. Father O. M. Doyle, costs only, 18s. Cd.: Commercial Agency Ltd. and L. T. Watkins v.'A. J. -Peachey, £l3, costs £2 145.; E. Sime and Co. Ltd. v. H. Palmer, 55., costs 95.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and Wakefield Clothing Co. v, J. Palmer, £3 10s., costs £1 ss. 6d.; Commer* cial Agency Ltd. and W. H. Green and Co. Ltd. v. H. Rumbold, 145., costs Bs.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and James Johnston v. C. H. St. John, £4 10s., costs £1 4s. 6d.: Commercial Agency Ltd. and City Fish Supply Lid. (in liquidation) v. Thomas Stewart, £J 65.. 2d., costs 10s.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and J. Johnston v. W. T. Stcane, £8 125,. Rd., costs £1 12s. 6d.; B. O. Bergerson. v. C. Thomson, £6, costs £1 Ils. 6d.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and Commerce Motors. Ltd ( . v. H. N. Tulloch, £2 18s.. costs £1 3s. fid.; Commercial Agency Ltd. and .Tames Johnston v. L. K. Walker, £4 10s., costs £1 3s. fid.: Commercial Agency Ltd. and Novelties Ltd. v. H. C. Young, £l2 2s. 10d., costs- £2

145.; Joseph Nathan' and Co. Ltd. v. J. Ellis, £2BO 19s. 3d., costs £ll Ils. On judgment summonses Ronald T. McLean was ordered to pay Annie Campbell £5B 2s. 3d;, in default 59 days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended so long as £l5 is paid by February 23 and £6 a month thereafter; George Smith to pay Wellington Plumbers and Gasfltters’ Industrial Union of Workers £4 15s. fid., at the rate of ss. a week; N. R,. Stone to pay New Zealand Express Co. Ltd., £l7 15s. fid., in default 18 days’ imprisonment; S. Luke to pay A. and .T. Burt, Ltd. £26 16s. 9d. within one idonth, in default 27 days' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended as long as £1 a month is paid until August 8, when balance Is to be paid; E. Ireson to pay H. Baldwin and Co. Ltd. £l4 10s. lid., in default 14 days’ Imprisonment; E. Marston to pay Edward Hartley £5 fia. fid., in default six days’ imprisonment; Thomas Stewart to pay Sydney Robert Murray £6 Bs., in default seven days’ imprisonment: J. Harris to pay Radford and Co. Ltd. £1 95., In default two days’ imprisonment: A. R. Birkett to pay South British Insurance Co. Ltd. £0 14a. Td<, at the rate of 3s. a week; C, H. JenMdJ to pay A. B. Slevwright £4 10s. by February 21, in default .five days' Imprisonment.