MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18857, 9 May 1923, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

• Tuesday,) Mat 8. (Before Mr J. B. .Bartholofnew; S.M.)

judgment: was .plaintiffs in- the following cases.—Henry Jackson ,v. George plaini ilO ,3s ,pn a judgment' summons!—An ..order was ipade that, unless the" defendant pay the amount of judgment- due, with costs (£1 15s), he be imprisoned for 14 days. Findlay Spence v. Charlotte Shepherd (Mataura), claim £lO (costs £1 10s 6d). ' A Tenement Case. —Sarah Sharp proceeded against Harry Dury for possession of two rooms at 30 St. David street, let by her to defendant at tho rate of os.per week. Plain- - tiff complained that 'the -defendant was an intolerable nuisance to her -and w’as*' continually; quarrelling with Ins wife--’ He frequently brought drink to the house'arid he and'his wife-bad-.two men boarding with them. On one -occasion she had found a man sleeping on) the kitchen floor. —Defendant explained that ! lie.-was quite willing to leave the house provided lie could get rooms c'sewherc. Ho ' denied that 'there was any quarrelling going- on. His wife, he said, was deaf and he. bad jdi shout to to her. That .would ’undoubtedly give the impression that he was quarrelling.—Tho Magistrate ruled that 1 there was'-’-not sufficient evidence of misconduct on defendant’s part, and plaintiff would, therefore, be non-suited-