CIVIL CASES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1915, Page 8

CIVIL CASES

At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs, with costs, in the following undefended civil cases :—: — New Zealand Times Coy., Ltd., v. E. J. Whyte, £3 15s, costs 10s; A- and P. Food Coy., Ltd., v. E. E. Thompson^ 8s costs only ; Tobacconists' Co-operative Association, Ltd., v. W. E. Bateman, £1 17s, costs 63} R. Martin, Ltd., v. J. M'Kee, £3 ss, costs 10s; C. Masor Cinematograph Coy., Ltd:, v. P. Price, costs only, £1 15s; Wellington Publishing Coy., Ltd., v. J. B. Dalton, £9 16s, costs 8s j Veiteh and Allan v. Moses Winterburn, £5 19s sd, costs £1 3s 6d; Forde and Co. v. Joseph Oscar Twomey, £1 10s, costs 7r , E. J. Proud v. Sarah A. M 'Donald, £1 9s, costs ss; Barber and Co. v. W. Standen, 7s 2d, costs 7s; E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., v. A. J. Richards, £3 5s 7d, costs 10s; Veitch and Allan v. Miss M. Foreman, 7s 6d, costs ss; The Wellington Gas. Coy., Ltd., v. James Stevenson, £1 ' 2s 6d, costs ss; Veitch and Allan v. E. C. Thomas, £7 18s 2d, costs £1 9s 6d ; Empire Hotel, Ltd., v, A. C. C. Stevens, £1 Is lOd, costs 7s; Florence K. Seyden v. Frederick Richardson, £12' 12s, costs £1 lls 6d; Commercial Agency v. John Hamilton, £3 Bs, costs 15s. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. Walter Launder was ordered to pay Te Aro House Drapery Coy., Ltd., £1 7s by 11th February, in default twentyI four hours' imprisonment.

An unusual case cam© before Mr, D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Magistrate^ Court thie afternoon, when Annie Rudd, a respectable-looking married woman was charged on four count* wi£h wilfully causing to be sent through the post indecent documents addressed to the members of a firm of Wellington dentists and the wife of one of them. The dates of the offences were 6th Januuary, 14th January, and 20th January (two charges). Mr. T. Young appeared for the informant and Mr. G. H. Fell for the defendant. Mr. Fell entered a plea of guilty, and said that Mrs. Rudd would give an undertaking that she would write no more letter* of the nature complained of. He asked that the matter be proceeded with no further. Mr. Young handed the letters to his Worship, who pointed . out that defendant was liable to a fine of £100. "The letters are absolutely nothing but filth," commented Bis Worship, "and I will accept counsel's plea that the woman has a kink in her mind." Defendant was fined £5 and costs (£8 18s in all) on one information, and the other three charges were withdrawn. Hia Worship warned the woman that she must not repeat the offence. Mr. C. A. Loughnan has returned to Palmerston from a visit to England. Misfortune rapidly overtook a young man named Andrew John Davidson after he had committed the theft 6f two bicycles. He Was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with having on 10th December, 1914, stolen a machine valued at £5 10b, the property of Arthur Sixsmith ; also, on the 7th December, with having stolen a bicycle of the value of £5, belonging to Ernest Heath. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Chief-Detective Boddam explained that Davidson had sold the £5 10s machine for 7s 6d to a second-hand dealer. Just afterwards he joined the Expeditionary Forces at Trentham, and was later found on the railway line with his left hand badly injured. The hand had since been amputated at the Hospital "You have had rather a rough time," said Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., "otherwise 1 would have given you a fair term of imprisonment." Accused was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment on each charge, and ordered to pay 7s 6d to the second-hand dealer, the feicycle to bg returned jo its ftwner..