RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 777, 1 November 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAT. (Before the Hon. A. C. Strode, R.M«) DRUNKENNESS.

Catherine Doolan and Robert Alexander were each charged with this offence, and fined 20s and costs, or the usual alternative.

OFFENCE AGAINST THE VAGRANT ORDINANCE. Richard Miles was charged on the information of Constable Fair with being an habitual drunkard. Six convictions against the prisoner were put in, and he was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. Civil. CASES.

W G. &T. Turnbuil and Co. v. John A. Bradley, claim of £lB 15s 2d, for goods and cash supplied. Judgment was given for the amount claimed, with costs. Alfred J. Talbot (agent for the trustee in the estate of Morton and Robertson) v. William H. Mansford, claim of £1 ss, for meals, &c, supplied. The case was adjourned by consent until Friday fortnight, to allow the defendant time to appear. Robert Ellis v. David Forsyth Main, claim of £l, for balance of a contract alleged to have been made. It appeared that a horse belonging to the defendant had been purchased at auction by the plaintiff, and the parties came to an arrangement that if the defendant paid the plaintiff the sum of £l9 10s, he would sell him the horse. This bargain was afterwards cancelled, and the present defendant summoned the plaintiff for the illegal detention of the horse, and obtained a verdict that the horse should be returned to him, or in default, for him to pay the sum of £2O and costs. The plaintiff failed to restitute the horse, and paid the money in default. Since then, he received from the present defendant the sum of £lB 10s, and claimed the balance of £l, in terms of the first contract. The Magistrate held that this action had nothing to do with the preceding one, and nonsuited the plaintiff. Weir & Co. v Phillips, Parsons and Co, claim of £ls, for damage sustained by the wilful breakage of the plaintiff's property by the defendants servants. From the evidence given, it appeared that the defendants servants in removing a butcher's block from the premises of Messrs Low and Wilson, from the want of sufficient assistance, caused it to fall against the wall adjacent to the plaintiff's shop, by which means a great quantity of glassware, &c, was broken. Judgment was given for the amount claimed together with costs. The cases of Newton v. Guerkin, Helms and Co. v. M'Braid, and Crawford v. Phillips, Parsons and Co. were dismissed, in consequence of the non-appearance of either parties.