NAPIER MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 41, 31 January 1922, Page 6

NAPIER MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M.) CIVIL BUSINESS Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following cases:— Sarah Owen v. R- J- White, claim £6 14/-, costs £1 17/6; Hanah Cohen v. James Moore, claim £4 4/-, costs £1 15/6; Maria Theresa Margoliouth and another v. James Brownlie, claim £4O, costs £4 8/6; J. Mahoney and Sons, Ltd., v. J. H Handyside, idaim for costs only 13/-; Cotterill and Humphries v. A. Puna, claim 11/-, costs £1 10/-; Brownette Bros. v. F. Lind, claim 19/-, casts 8/-; F. G. Wilmer v. H. Vickers, claim £l3 4/7, costs £2 15/-; Napier Gas Co., Ltd., v. H. M. Patteson, claim costs £1 4/6; P. J. Munning v. A. T. Durrant, claim £8 3/-, costs £l/19/6; General Labourers Union, Napier branch, v. Patrick Madden, claim £1 8/-, costs 9/-. JUDGMENT SUMMONS.

Thomas Rutter was ordered to pay Frank K. McNee the sum of £2 fortnwith and £2 16/2 in two months, in fault 7 days’ imprisonment. K. Cairns was ordered to pay J. Mahoney and Sons, Ltd., £4 16/- in 14 ' clays, in default 7 dajs' imprisonment. J. James was ordered to pay Stanford Bros. £4 3/4 in 14 days, in dedeiault 7 days’ imprisonment. Judgment for plaintiffs was given in the case of Lowe and Keesing v. J. Gurr. claim £7O 4/3, costs L 8 5/6. Security for appeal was fixed at £lO, plus amount of judgment. Tasman G. Gurr claimed from A. A. Hunt the sum of £8 12/6, being the price of some second-hand iron. Mr. Hyslop represented the plaintiff and Mr. H. A. Cornford the defendant. After evidence had been given by plaintiff and John Firclough, also by the defendant and Mrs. Gurr, wife of the plaintiff, as owner of the house, Mr. Cornlord moved for a non-suit. His Worship said it was a question of the ownership of the iron, whether it Plaintiff was non-suited on these belonged to Mr. Gurr or Mrs. Gurr. grounds, and was ordered to pay costs T 1 17/6. H. J. Jameson claimed £ll from S. Bradley, being the value of an over-,-coat and scarf given in charge of defendant as custodian of the cloakroom in the Municipal Theatre, Napier, on the occasion of the Returned Soldiers’ ball, and subsequently lost by defendant. Mr. L. A. Rogers appeared for plaintiff and Mr. John Mason for defendant. Plaintiff gave evidence of leaving his clothes in the cloakroom in charge of defendant. The coat produced in court was not his; he had bought a new coat about six weeks before. ’ for which he paid £6 12/6; the scarf lost was a gilt to him, and was hand-made, and he valued it at £2. (The court here adjourned for lunch.)