LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10628, 17 December 1897, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

* MAGISTRATE'S COURT.-Thursday. Before Mr. 11. W. Brabant, S.M.] ORDERS BY DEFAOXT. Orders for plaintiffs were made by default, with costs, m the following instances:—o. Brown v. H. Carter, claim £8 19s lOd, judgment for £8 Is lOd, costs £1 12s 6d: J. Wendall v. 1). Booth, £5 15s. costs 18s 6d; Chas. Hopkins, £4 6s 6d, costs 12s; T. and S. Morrin and Company v. J. L. Audrade, £20 3s lid, costs £4 143! John Byers v. John Deverell £3 3i 9d, costs 10s; Keid and Gray v. T. S. Runciman £4 Jos 3d, costs 12s; Reid and Gray v. Thos. R. Fraser. £3 7s 6d, costs 12s; Isabel Melville v. D. W. Fletcher, £4 12s 6d, costs 10s; Bond and Bell v. Mrs. E. Matthews, £30 3a 6d, costs £3 2s: K«y and Leahy v. W. Reed, £7 4s, costs £13a 6d; A. M. HuxUble v. E. Hume, £2, costs Ills; A. Aley v. \V. Canon, £3 4s, costs ss. FOR SERVICES RENDERED. Francis P. Cahill v. Thomas Edward Fitzgerald and Andrew McLeod: In this case the plaintiff sought to recover £19 16s 6d for services rendered in connection with Alley's Freehold and moneys paid on accouut of defendants. Mr. J. R. Reed appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Jackson Palmer fot defendant Fitzgerald, McLeod not disputing the claim but confessing liability for the sum of £19 16s 6d and costs £1 5s 3d. After hearing the evidence of both parties to the dispute and witnesses on either side, His Worship struck out the item of £11 12s, which he held that plaintiff was not entitled to, it being involved in a case in which the plaintiff was a witness for McLeod against the defendant Fitzgerald, and reserved judgment on the balance until Friday afternoon at 2.30,