MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY’S SITTING. POLICE AND CIVIL CASES. Yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr E. Page, S.M., when police and civil cases were dealt with. A first offender for insobriety was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. ABSENT FROM SHIP. A young seaman named George Arthur Foyne pleaded guiltv to a charge of unlawfully absenting himself from the s.s. Kent without leave. The chief engineer of the vessel said that the ship had now its full complement and the accused was not needed. A sentence of seven days’ imprisonment was imposed. CIVIL CASES. Mr EL Page, S.M., gave judgment for Slaintiff by default in the following unefonded civil cases yesterday:— Fell and Putnam v. John Watt, £7 6s, costs £2 6s 6d'; James Walker v. Charles H. Latham. £ll Is, costs £2 15s; Beni'amin F. Farrington v. George F. Glaplom, £8 10s, costs ,£1 10s 6d; Edward Wellesley Wise v. A. El Gumbley, .£2O 14s, costs £3 ss; D. Lloyd Clay v. C. H. Wing, .£7 7s, costs ,£1 10s 6d; The Lamson Dispatch Co. of N.Z., Ltd., v. Tudehopes. Ltd., £7 6s, costs £1 Is 6d; Makara County Council v. James William Scott, £7 3; Bd, costs .£1 14s 6d; A. EL Niclioll k. T.McGill, £2 4s 9d, costs £1 Os 6d; Ernest Gregory Pilcher (trading as Greymouth Coal Co.) v. John Alfred) Bradley and Stanley William Bradley (trading as A. Bradley and Son), <£2s 19s lid, costs £2 13s; George Mumford v. A. Shadbolt, £26 12s, costs £3 3s; E. Feist and Co., Ltd. v. A. J. Dockery, £9 16s 6d, costs £1 15s 6d; S. King and Co. v. A. Saunders, £5 Os 9d', costs £1 10s 6d; Vacuum Oil Co. Proprietary v. Thomas Rees, 10s, costs £1 15s; Australasian Scale Co., Ltd. v. L. A. Braund. 17s 6d, costs 9s; Wellington City Council v. J. M. Burt, £1 8s 4d. costs 9s; J. O'Brien and Co. v. Alfred Shearsby, £1 4s 6d, costs 9s; Crump and Co., Ltd. v. Mrs J. Kenning, 6d, costs £1 8s; Commercial Agency and Ross and Glendining, Ltd. v. P. Smith. £2O 16s 4'd, costs £3 2s; Green and Davis v. Ihaia Weeker, £25 15s Sd, costs £3 9s; William Kidd v. H. T>. Maitland. £6 12s 6d, costs £1 10s 6d; United States Rubber Co.. Australasia, Ltd. v. A. H. Aldridge, £l4 2s lOd. costs £2 14s: Sarah Brewer v. Sylvia Haywood. £8 15s, costs £1 10s 6d. JUDGMENT SUMMONS On a judgment summons S. M. Franklin was ordered to pa>- United Growers, Ltd., the sum of £1 16s before February Bth, 1921, or serve forty-eight hours imprisonment.