THE COURTS-TO-DAY

Evening Star, Issue 15478, 28 April 1914, Page 6

THE COURTS-TO-DAY

MAGISTRATE’S COURT,

(Before Messrs H. E. Moller and A. Matheson, J.P.s.)

Judgment by default* was given for plaintiffs in the following cases:—Bertrand Edgar Do Lautour (Mr W. L. Moore) ■v. Arthur Driscoll, £2 ss, balance of account for professional services, with costs 14s; Helen Alexander (Mr Callan) v. James Cruse, £5, board and lodging, with costs 10s; Wilson, Balk, and Co. (Mr Hay) v. Wm. Draper (Blenheim), £lO 16s Id, goods, with costs £1 10s 6d; Nimmo and Blair (Mr Moore) v. Henry Joblin (Darfield), £ll 9s 9d, goods, with costs £1 19s 6d; Felix Donnelly (Mr Moore) v. Patrick Maley (Lowburn), £1 6s, account stated, with costs 7s; W. S. Reddell and Co. (Mr Bedford) v. Robert Tait (Naseby), 19s, goods, with costs os; A. E. Usherwood and Co. (Mr W. L. Moore) v. Oscar B. Bergerson (Palmerston North), £lO 16s, goods, with costs £1 10s 6d; C. and W. Hayward, Ltd. (Mr Moore) v. John Fraser (North Invercargill), £6 10s, goods, with costs £1 3s 6d; M-Connell and Son (Mr Moore) v. Samuel Keen (Port Chalmers),- £1 Is, goods, with costs ss; J. E. Robertson (Mr Scurr) v. Peter M'Gregor (Roxburgh), £6 3s 4d, goods, with costs £1 3s 6d; Mills, Dick, and Co. (Mr Moore) v. Thomas Halkett (Timaru), £2, account stated, with costs 10s.

(Before H. Y. Widdowson, Esq., S.M.)

Claims over £2O and defended cases were taken at noon by Mr Widdowson.

Bing, Harris, and Co., Ltd. (Mr J. S. Sinclair) v. Timothy Driscoll (Wrey’s Bush, Southland), £3l 10s ld{ goods, with costs £2 19s; Archibald Thompson (Mr Moore) v. Harry King (Picton), £29 7s 7cl, goods, with costs £2 14s; the Otago Fanners’ Co-operative Association (Mr E. J. Smith, for Messrs Sidey and Collier) v. William Baird (South Invercargill), £3l Is 6d, being price of a horse, with costs £2 14s; Herbert, Haynes and Co., Ltd., v. Rev. Eniest Oulliford (Balfour), £33 2s Id, goods, with costs £3 3s. Bing, Harris, and Co., Ltd. (Mr J. S. Sinclair) v. Jacob for £l6 Is 2d, on a judgment summons. —Defendant, who did not appear, was ordered to pay the amount owing forthwitln with costs los, or in default 17 days imprisonment. Emma Harris (Mr E. J. Smith) v. David Flint.—Claim for £3 los, on a judgment summons.—Defendant said the debt was inenrx-ed by his daughter for a costume. He had a wife and four children under 14 years of age to support, his wages were £2 3s per week, and he paid 8s per week for rent. His wife was practically an invalid. He gave further particulars, and informed counsel that he had never drank intoxicating liquor and had never smoked in his life, and that he did not gamble.— The case was dismissed. L. O’Brien, of Wellington (Mr Lang, instructed by Smithson and Moseley, Christchurch), v. Harry Brodziak, of the Aladdin Pantomime Company.— Claim for £7 12s, on a judgment summons.—Defendant admitted the debt, which was for board and lodging, and said that he worked for the Aladdin Company and got £1 a week from them. He sold music_ for the pantomime, and had got 2os” to 30s a week only during the season for nine weeks. The Auckland season brought under £3 from the music, the Christchurch season about £2 10s, and the Dunedin season about 7s. Ho was paid on percentage. He did not think the people of Dunedin had got money.—After further evidence the case was dismissed.