RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 3, Issue 130, 17 March 1860, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Maeoh 2. — M. Boylan appeared to answer a charge of not having sent in returns of ammunition Bold during last quarter. Reprimanded and dismissed. Maltby v. Egati — summons for illegal detention of, a oar t. Judgment, that the cart be given up, and the constable ordered to see it' done. ' " : ■:.-."■.• '■-, •■••■ ; .'--. ■'■/.■'

Maech 6, — Brooking r. Egan, — debt, £13 12s. 7d. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs, including witnesses, expenses £2 13s. 6d. Torr v. Hmiahona, — suit for £20, damages incurred by the defendant having shot a cow, the property of the plaintiff. Defendant admitted having Bhot the cow, assigning as a reason that " it broke down the fence and got into our crops. We have been continually in the habit, within the last three years of seeing this particular cow get into our fields. We never fired at the cow before. We have during three years repeatedly driven her out, but as she would not keep out we at last shot her." Judgment for £12.

Maeoh 9. — John Johnson was fined 10s. for drunken and indecent conduct. Oxeribridge v. McManus, suit for £8 18s. for wages and money. Judgment for amount with costs. Egan v. Reardon, The defendant was called on to deliver up a pair of boots, the property of plaintiff. The case was of a trifling nature. Application not entertained.

Maeoh 13. — HitcMngs v. JEgan. The plaintiff sought to recover £1, damages sustained through defendant's horse having broken in to plaintiffs enclosed fence, and trampled all over the place. Defendant admitted the charge, and judgment was given for the amount claimed. Execution was delayed till the 14th in order to ascertain the state of Dr. Hitchings' fence, but on that day the defendant was reported as having disappeared. Charles Sholter appeared on a charge of allowing his horse to wander at large. Fined 10s. William Oliver and William Miller were charged with having threatened and offered to strike William Thompson, policeman, in the execution of his duty. Dismissed, with a severe condemnation. Bray v. Blair, suit for £3 os. 3d., being the cost of erecting a dividing fence between the property of plaintiff and defendant. The latter pleaded that he had sold the land to Mr. Garry on condition that it should all be fenced. Nonsuited.

Masch 14. — Cronin v. By an, debt £2 Bs. Od. Judgment by default for whole amount. McManus r: AitJcen, suit for £20, for breach of contract in having failed to convey certain goods the property of the plaintiff to the race course, after having contracted to do so. Judgment for defendant, he to pay costs. McManus v. Thompson, suit for £4 3s. 9d., for bread, &c, supplied. Offset of £1 6s. 6d. allowed, and judgment for the balance.