MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVIL ACTIONS.

, Before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day, T. J;., Sullivan, land agent, of Wellington (for whom Mr. J. O'Donovah appeared)' Bued G. V. Campion, settler, of Wellington (represented' by Mr. T. C. A. Hislop).for £25, alleged to be due as commission on the sale of the defendant's butchery business" at Seatoun on or about 21st July last. .-■ The case for the plaintiff was .that had agreed to take £300 for the. ;'• business, plaintiff to get any commission above that sum. Subsequently,- a,' buyer ' was found who offered £525, and jt was stated that when, defendant was 'informed of this he gave instructions for tho deal to bo closed. Defendant, however, did not go on with the matter. The defence was that the authority to! sell was withdrawn, also* that plaintiff had sold the business at a flower price than was authorised. The hearing of the .case was not concluded, and an adjournment was made until tomorrow afternoon. . ■ JUDGMENT' BY DEFAULT. ' Judgment by default was given by Mr. i PageJti the following undefended casos: —! .Gaudih, Mair, Ltd., v. W. Stockman £3 15s 9d, costs £1 3s 6d; tho Public Trustee as custodian of onomy property and of the assets of the Continental C. and G. Rubber Co. v. the Te Kuiti Motor Garage Co., £1;105.5d, costs 15s; State Advances Superintendent v. Charles' A. Roulston £16 18s 7d, costs £1 9a; Laery and Co., Ltd. v. P. Bevia £9 10a 4d, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. T; Campbell £12 Us 2d, costs £2 Its; Mrs. M. J. M'Leod v. James Deane £4 13s, costs £1 3s 6d;'Osmond and Son (N.Z.), Ltd. v.'V. L. Jones £6, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. Karaitiona Wirihana £2 12s and costs £1 8s 6d; J. O. Smith v. D. J. Levett £2 ss, costs £1 3s 6d; Smith r and Smith,- Ltd. v. :W. J. Monkhouse, costs only, £2 6s; Hope, Gibbons, Ltd. v. Patterson and Co. £15 10s, costs .Cl 3s; N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Co. v.. Laurens and Co. £12 3s 7d, coats £2 14s. . . ' TENEMENT CASES. 1 ■ Mr. F. X.. Hunt,.;S,M., dealt with teno--ment cases as follows:— W. K. Saddler was ordered to vncato premises belonging to Florence L. Potter by 19th September. . Frederick Brooks was ordered to give up possession of a. dwelling to Paul Sheer by 24th August. . /