MAGISTRATES COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 14962, 23 August 1912, Page 1

MAGISTRATES COURT.

The. following cases "were heard yesterday afternoon : Commercial Agency Company v. Albert A. Cowan (Lyttelton).—Claim, £22 12s 4<l, for goods bargained and sold. Mr .H. Baron for plaintiff, Mr I>ei)ioji for defendant.—The evidence of the defendant bad' been taken at Lyttelton.—Plaintiff jia.ve evidence, and after hearing legal argument His Worship reserved decision. John Weavers v. John l?opham.—Plaintiff claimed £34 2s as th? endorsee of a promissory note dated June 17, 1910, made Ity defendant and payable three months aftejr date to William Miller or order, aiid> which defendant had' lot paid; an<i further. £6 Is 3d, for the balance of interest due, at the rale of *3O p.v rem., down \* the date of jidg m-etjt, 9s 6d naving been already paid—a idtal sum of £4O 3s 3d. Mr W* C . MacCreKor for plaintiff and Mr J. B. Calkin for defendant. —The defence was that the note was practically a forgery, defendant denying that the signature was his. The statements of plaintiff and defendant differed materially.—Finally the case was adjourned, .Mr'Callan having raked the point as to whether the p.n. was admissible in evidence, it having been antedated.