MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18143, 8 July 1919, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH.

Mr T.. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided at yesterday’s sitting of tire Magistrate’s Court. Two first offenders were each fined 5s and costs for drunkenness. Gordon Frazer was rmeu £3 on a charge of .having used obscene language. On a further charge of druniiemiess he was convicted and discharged. Joim O’Callaghan (Mr Gee) pleaded guilty to charges of disorderly behav ■ lour while drunk and with using obscene language in a public place. Accused, who had previously been bound over to keep the peac-c, was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment on the charge of using obscene language On the charge of disorderly conduct he i was convicted and discharged. In each of the following cases judgment,. with costs, was entered for the | plaintiff by default:—F. D, Kesteven | v. R. J. Toung and K. Young, £26 10s (against the separate estate of K. | Young); Andersens, Ltd. v. Stanley A. j Jones, £l6 4s; same v. W. Ryder, £3 7s 0d; Massey,. Harris Co., Ltd. v. M. B. Gough. £7 12s 9d; Trade'Auxiliary ■ Co. of N.Z., Ltd. v. W. G. Fraser, £o 17s; James Savage v. Isaac Webb and Henrietta Webb, £l9 7s 6d (against the separate estate of He.nriettn Webb); Dominion Compressed Yeast Co., Ltd. v. E. G. Alluatt, £6 7s 4d; Barnet Glass Rubber Co., Ltd. v.. Alfred A. Mitchell, £4B 19s lOd. A. L. Ford Was ordered to pay F. D. Kesteven (Mr Thomas). £5 (is at the rate of 10s a week. No default was fixed. Daniel Macdonald (Mr Rowe) sued Eugeno 1/orgelly (Mr Mailey)’ for £its, balance alleged 'to. bo due as rent for 80 acres of scrub land, leased by the plaintiff to the defendant. The plaintiff gave evidence to the effect that lie leased about 80 acres of scrub land on the Wninoni Road. After Koine negotiations he entered into a verbal agreement with the defendant to allow him to graze twelve or thirteen cows at a payment of 10s a week, provided he (defendant) took the place for twelve months and put. tho fences in good repair. Defendant entered into possession and paid a- portion of the rent, but when plaintiff asked for the balance after some months defendant said he had given up the place long before, and disclaimed any liability. Part of the agreement between plaintiff and defendant was that plaintiff should have tho right to graze six horses on tho land. He had never grazed more than this number. Tho ease for the defence was that the ,plaintiff had not given defendant a receipt for the £6 rent which defendant had paid, nor had he given defendant a written agreement as asked for. The Magistrate held that a written agreement was unnecessary, as tho term was only for twelve months. Judgment was entered for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs. LYTTELTON. Messrs W. T. Lester, J.P., and F. G. Norton, J.P., presided at tho Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton yesterday. Thomas Lowrie, charged with assault, was fined £2, in default two months imprisonment. Patrick Beattie was charged with obstructing the police. Senior-Ser-geant Jackson stated that Beattie had committed one of the most deliberate obstructions that ho had witnessed in the town. A fine_ of £5, in default two months’ imprisonment, was inflicted.