RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6189, 9 December 1881, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thursday, Bth December. (Before E. H.'Carow, Esq., K.M.)

C. Bilson v.' J. Campbell.—Claim, £11 Is Gd, boing tho balanco due on a contract for

extras. —Mr Cook appeared for tho plaintiff, and Mr Macgregor for tho defendant.—This case had been adjourned from previous day, and after hearing the remainder of tho evidonce Ilia Worship intimated that ho would resorve judgment. : . ,

A. Krull and otliers v. A. Wood. —Claim £49, for unlawful detention of musical instru-1 mentsj.—Mr Denniston appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr M'Keay for the defendant. —This was also an adjourned ease. Tho plaintiffs were members of tho No. 1 Battalion Band, and tho defendant, who had also been a member and captain of the band, loft and took with him tho instruments, which ho did not return. The plaintiffs now claimed £4!) for tho unlawful detention of the instruments.—Judgment was resorvod. Hallenatein Bros & Co. v. Richardson—Claim £2 los Cd, for clothes sold.—Mr Stout appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr Stamper for tho defendant.—His Worship now gave judgment in this case as follows :—" The evidence allows that the defendant was in insolvent circumstances, and had arranged for tho preparation of a deed of assignment on the 28th September and on tho following day purchased the clothes for which tho pneo is now sued for. There was -no arrangement for credit and whon tho clothes wove Bout to :his house tho messago-boy asked for the money, • but was not paid, and-, on the 80th September defendant filed, the dead, This

ia clearly a case of fraud, for when defendant purchased the goods he had, it would seem, neither means nor intention to pay for them, and got them into his possession by trickery. •Judgment will therefore bo given for plaintiff, with full costs."