CIVIL CASES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1912, Page 8

CIVIL CASES

UNDEFENDED LIST. In the following undefended cases judg* meat was entered in favour of tho ploin« tiffs by default in the Magistrate's Court, before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., to-day:— John Chambers , and Son, Ltd. v. M'Kenzia and Broadbent, £2 2a, ooete 10s; Harrington N.Z., Ltd. v. O. F. Johnston, 16s 6d, costs 8s j Harria and Ba»tin, Ltd. v. G. Gardiner and Sons, '< £61 14« lid, costs £2 17s: John Herbert Hin ton. v. Clifford Huggins, £9 2s lid, coste 18s 6d; Mrs. Ethel Lyons v. Mrs. Mary Smith, £i 6s 6d, costs 6s; H. G. Anderson and Co., Ltd. v. J< T. Tukes, £1 168, costs ss; R. B. Davies v. W. J. Jamieson, £3 15s, coste 10s; E. Reynolds and^Co., Ltd. v, W. H. Wiggins, £15 12s 6d, CoeteJßl 10a 6d: George Doughty and Co. v. Richard Bertram Bunt, £56 7s 4d, costs £3 18s 3d; E. Reynolds and Co., Ltd. v. W. H. Wiggins, £15 9s, costs £1 5s 6dj J. B. Clarkson and Co., Ltd. v. Albert Edward Clement, £11 19s 3d, costs 15s. "JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Reginald L. Vale was ordered to pay £1 & 3d to H. Kaha on or before Bth October. Loo Kee wa« ordered to pay £33 10s 9d to Wollerman and Co. before Bth October. E. F. Hiscooks was ordered to pay F. Aslin £6 15s lOd on or before Bth OctoDEFENDED. Laery and Co., Limited, produce merchants, of •Wellington, proceeded against Robertson Bros,, Ltd., produce merchants, of Auckland, on a claim for £l 62s 6d fof balance of the price of chaff sold. Defendants counter-claimed for the same amount, saying that they had suffered damago to that extent by reason of the plaintiffs' failure to deliver the chaff at the rate of three trucks a week, as provided by the contract. The question in dispute wae whether the Vendor or the mirehaser must bear the loss occasioned by the impossibility of finding freightage for the goods from Picton to Onehunga. Mr. A. A. S. Menteath appeared for plaintiffs and Mr. H. IS, Evans for defendants. After hearing evidence, the case wm ad< iourned for legal argument,