RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 840, 15 January 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) CIVIL CASES. Rehearing. —E. Efcherick v. Wm. Blackwood. Claim of £l4, the balance of a contract for slating and plumbing-work dons to a bouse in Caversham. in November, 1864. Mr, Wdson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr B. C. Haggitt for the defendant. The plaintiff’s case was, that he entered into a verbal agreement with the defendant to do certain slate and plumbingwork for the sum of £6B, on account of which he had received the sum of £54. The defence was that the agreement was for the sum of £56. John Robertson stated, before the work was commenced, he drew up an agreement, according to Mrs Blackwood’s instructions, to the effect, that the plumbing-work was to be done for £lB, and the slating for £3B. (The specification produced was then shown to the witness, who said it was the agreement to which he referred, but in which no mention of the amount was made.) Mrs. Blackwoo 1 stated, she gave instructions for the dra wing out of an agreement, and heard it read, wherein the price named was £56, and the plaintiff signed it. A. Macindoe, when the agreement was read. heard the sum of £56 named, but could not say whether it had been read from the document or not. Mr Potherick was recalled, and distinctly swore that nothing about the price was named at the time the agreement was signed.—Judgment was given for the amount claimed, and costs. Prendergasfc, Kenyon, and Mad’lock v. Jas. Wilson and Wra. Fuller (lately trading as Jas. Wilson and Co ) —a claim of £7 4s Sd for professional services. Judgment, by consent, was given for the amount claimed, and costs. Andrew Simpson v. Jas. Roberts —a claim of £9 17s 3d for meat. The defendant admitted liability, but requested time. Judgment, by consent, was given for the amount claimed, and costs, to be paid in weekly instalments of five shillings per week. In the case of Isaacs v. Santy, in which a summons had been issued against the defendant for disobeying his subpoena, was further remanded for a fortnight, the summons not having yet been served. In the case of Menlove v. Robertson—a claim of £l2 Is Id for meat—judgment by default was given for the amount, and costs.