MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2703, 6 December 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, December G. [Before 0. Whitefoord, Esq., E.M.]

Drunkenness. — Chas. Perry was fined ss, Mary Kennedy was fined £1; Geo. Dow, who had been found incapable while in charge of a horse and dray, was fined £l, and ordered to pay 3s stabling. Alleged Wife Desertion. A case against Michael Murphy was, on the application of Mr McConnel, adjourned till Thursday, in order that it might he hoard with an application for the committal of his children to Burnham.

Assault. —Charles Brown was charged with assaulting Hodgson Holt, in Poulson street, on the previous night. Sergeant Mason said he had reason to believe that the case was more serious than had at first appeared. The accused was remanded for twenty-four hours. Bail was allowed, one surety iu £25. Burnham Children. —Elizabeth Horn, in arrears with her contribution towards the support of her child, was allowed further grace of seven days to pay up. Civil Cases. —King v Pepperell, claim for the restoration of a horse, cart, and harness, together with £2 10s damages by their detention, or for £lO their value in lieu thereof. Mr Fisher appeared for plaintiff, Mr McConnel for defendant. It appeared that plaintiff had purchased in November, ISSO, from one J. Mohr the property above mentioned, and in a day or two afterwards leased the same to Mohr for a weekly payment. On November 9th last Mohr gave defendant a hill of sale over the property, on hearing of which plaintiff resumed possession. Defendant then wont with a number of men armed with clubs to a locked shod, unscrewed the fastening of the door, and took the horse, cart, and harness away. He had since sold them. Defendant proved that the cart and harness were not the same as those leased him, and ns to the horse ho asserted that Mohr had paid for it by a mortgage over his property made subsequent to the leasing, and, therefore, Mohr, having a right to deal with it, there had been no wrongful conversion by defendant. The Bench, however, hold that the horse belonged to plaintiff, and gave judgment for £7, as the value of the horse, with costs of Court, solicitor’s foe and expenses of two witnesses. Hutchinson v Cathro, claim £25 12s 3d, being the value of goods (boots), entrusted to defendant for sale. Mr Grcsson for plaintiff, Mr Joyce for defendant. Defendant pleaded that ho held the goods as security for money owing to him through some hill transactions. Judgment for plaintiff, the claim to he reduced to Is if the goods are returned; defendant to pay costs of Court and solicitor’s foe. George v Harris was adjourned till December 13th, Wilkin v Thurston till December 20th.