MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17587, 18 September 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH,

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided at tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday. William Vartha, an old man, was fined 20s for drunkenness, lus third offence, and 10s for breach of a prohibition order. Samuel Vance, a youn" man, was fined 5s for drunkenness and 10s for breach of a prohibition order. John Curran was fined 20s lor disorderly behaviour. , . Joseph Patrick M’llroy pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to enrol in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Ho stated that ho had not enrolled because, he did not believe in war or in taking any part in it. “Three months’ imprisonment,” said the Magistrate, who added that the accused would be put into camp at the expiration of tho sentence. Reserved judgment was given in the ease of Alice Theresa Gee and Harry Geo (Mr Ward) v. Taylor and Oakley (Mr Gresson). Tho plaintiffs claimed £lO for rent and £3O for levelling a rubbish pit. The defendants counterclaimed for £2O for four years’ rent. Judgment was given for tho plaintiffs for £3O, and for the defendants on the counter-claim for £2O.

Judgment for the plaintiffs by default, with costs, was given in the following cases;—Lozzard and Son v. Stephen M’Donald, £7; J. Coattes and Co., Ltd. v. N. M. Manson, £2 2s; Arthur J. Allan v. Ernest Leonard Smith, £4 4s Gd; J. E. W. M’Ennis v. William Lcngney Fowler, £l4 7s Id; Andrews and Heaven. Ltd. v. ,F. Simpson, £6 2s; Beath and Co. v. Frederick Tapp, £1 123 3d; R. F. G. Ware v. A. W. Simpson, £8 4s 3d; Canterbury Publishing Company v. Paul Perry, £6 7a 6d; same v. Walter M’Pherson, £3 15s; Ideal Loan and Finanoa Company v. Seddon A. Gabriel. £6 Is 3d; Mating and Co., Ltd. v. M. A. P. Stores, Ltd., £1); New Zealand Piano Company v. Henry Arthur Coleman, 17s (id; same v. Stanley East, £7; Trade Auxiliary Company v. W. H. Booth, £5 3s. Annio Rowe and E. C. Rowe (Mr Johnston), executors of the estate of Charles W. Rowe, lato of Lyttelton, claimed £2OO from W. Rnddiffe (Mr Cassidy). Tho claim was for money lent and interest. Judgment was reserved, the Magistrate remarking that the defendant had practically acknowledged tho amount owing. 1 Thomas Pender (Mr Cassidy) claimed £132 8s 3d from Thomas W. Mooro (Mr Gresson) as damages sustained jn a motor accident on June 4, 1915.. It was stated that Pender, an elderly man in the employ .of the City Council, had been preparing a place in Tuam Street for tarred metal, when Moore, driving a. car with five intention of going into Adams’s garage, had knocked him down and run over him. Pender had been in hosoital and had last nine months’ pay.* After the hearing of considerable evidenco regarding the. accident', the Magistrate reserved judgment. , . Reserved judgment was delivered by tho Magistrate in the civil case of Gertrudes King, for whom Mr Rowo appeared, v. Green and Thompson (Mr Hunter), in which a sum of £SO was claimed for breach of agreement in regard to the lease of a confectioner’s shop in Gloucester Street, opposite tho Theatre Royal. Jho Magistrate said that either on Llio ground of misrepresentation or breach of covenant the plaintiff should succeed. Thompson, whether lie knew that Green was going to carry on anything but an ice-cream parlour, had made tho misrepresentation that he intended to use tlie placo as a barber s aliop, and not aa a confectioner’s shop, judgment would be given for the plaintiff for £2O against both defendants. LYTTELTON. Mr W. T. Lester, J.P.. presided at tlr 0 Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. . _ ~ _ John Tams and David Parris, charged with threatening behaviour, thereby causing a breach of tho peace, wero each fined 10s. Charles Ericksen, Harold Trovik and Walter Lindoss. for using obscene language on the ferry steamer Mararoa, were remanded until Wednesday.