RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 118, 22 May 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I [Before J. Poynter, Esq., E.M.] Monday, May 20. Augarde v. Watkins. —This action was brought to recover £IG4 9s. 4d., the valuation of crops grown on the property of the plaintiff, at Quail Valley, which had been sold to the defendant in August, 1868. The sum of £100 was sought to be recovered under the present action, in order to bring the action within the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court. Mr. Kingdon appeared for the plaintiff, aud Mr. A. Pitt for the defendant. The plaintiff iD June, 1866, valued the preparation of the ground and the seed at £74 16s. 3d., and in August of the same year the defendant became the purchaser of the property and of the crops. The plaintiff applied to the defendant to have the crops valued, which he refused to do. When the ciops came to maturity, he again applied 1o have them valued, and on the defendant's refusal, the plaintiff applied to Messrs. Bird and Trower, to act as valuators, and they valued the crops at £3 13s. per acre. A copy of the valuation was sent to the defendant. Several witnesses were examined for the plaintiff and the defendant, .in reply, stated that he had harvested the crops in question between the 10ill and 21st February, aud that they were threshed in March by steam machine. There were 260 bushels, and it cost 18s. per acre to reap and 15s. for mowing, and the defendant paid in all for cutting 23 nine-tenths acres, aud £17 for carting to stack, and for stacking and thatching. Also £7 for the use of the threshing machiue, and £9 Bs. for labor to machine. The grain was not sold Judgment was given for the plaintiff, for # £51 16s. with costs, Wednesday, May 22. John W. Tatton v. H. Williams, for £13 os. Sd., the price of chemicals sup" plied to the defendant, a chemist in the Wairau. Judgment for plaintiff for £12 os. Bd. with costs. Emma Bartlctt v. Thomas Freeman. — This was an action to recover the sum of £G 6s. Sd., due by the defendant's father (deceased) to the plaintiff, the payment of which had been guaranteed in writing by the defendant. Judgment for the plaintiff, for £6 6s. Bd. with costs, payable 15s. monthly. D. Grant v. Joseph Wilkins. —An action to recover £4 the amount of accounts received by the defendant on behalf of the plaintiff. The defendant had admitted the receipt of the amounts in question, aud was adjudged to pay the amount claimed £4, with costs. W. Wright v. Fred, Freemau. —This was an action to recover the amount of a dishonored bill for £14 145., with four years' interest at 10 per cent., amounting to £20 125., reduced to £20, in order to come within the jurisdiction of the Court. The defendant had made an assignment of his property, but the plaintiff refused to come in under the assignment with the other creditors, and brought the present action to recover the amount of the acceptance. The defendant admittted the debt, and judgment was given for the plaintiff for £20, with costs, payable monthly.