CONFLICTING JUDGMENTS.
TO THE KDITOR. Sib,— Can you explain tho following ? A plaintiff sues a defendant in the Resident Magistrate's Court for recovery of a sum of money for goods supplied, and tho Magistrate makes an order for payment by instalments of three shillings per week without an alternative of imprisonment. , One week later another plaintiff sues tho same defendant for a much smaller sum, also for goods supplied, and the Magistrate makes an order for immediate payment, or in default so many days' imprisonment, although the defendant's circumstances have not altered in the meantimo. Now, if the defendant was only able to pay threo shillings por week in tho first case, how can he pay a sum of over twenty shillings immediately ? Tho judgemeut seems so strango that I would like some light on it. I am, &c, A.B.C. Wellington, Feb. 28th, 1894.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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144CONFLICTING JUDGMENTS. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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