CIVIL JURISDICTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5

CIVIL JURISDICTION.

Sitting in civil jurisdiction to-day, Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M., gave reserved judgment in the case of Edward M'Ginty, commercial traveller, v. Granville Hunt, merchant, a claim for £43 10s, balance of commission alleged to be due on certain sales of leather ejected by plaintiff for defendant. The defence was that the goods in respect of which this commisBion was claimed had not been delivered ; and that plaintiff had given a receipt in settlement. His Worship said that in his opinion plaintiff was entitled to judgment for the amount of .the claim, less £5 he received, as he alleged, for travelling expenses, but about which his Worship had Fume doubt. The receipt signed by the plaintiff, thought his Worship) did not cover the 2£ per cent, commission due on delivery of the goods, nor was delivery dispensed with by the act of defenon.nl in refusing to fulfil the orders after hfi had accepted them. Judgment was accordingly" entered for plaintiff for £38 10s, with costs £4 4b. Mr. Levvey, who appeared for defendant, asked whether his Worship would give a more particularised judgment in writing, stating the reasons^for his decision. His Worship said that judgments in the form he had delivered wero usual in such cases, and there was a consensus of opinion among members of the legal profession that such judgments were most suitable. He was not prepared to traverse again each particular item of evidence. Mr. C. R.Dix appeared for th<> plaintiff. Judgment was entered for defendant in the case of William Brady v. Catherine Cain, a claim for ss, alleged to be due, in respect nf some signwriting done by plaintiff on behalf, it was claimed, of defendant. Mr. Dix appeared for defendant. Further evidence was taken in the adjourned case of Annie Maria Baker v. Herbert James Baker, a claim of £65, alleged to be due for maintenance. Thr fas© was adjourned for a week. Mr. Gray appeared for the plaintiff, Mr Blair for defendant.

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