MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Thursday, Mat. 19. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.)

UNDEFENDED CASES.

Judgment for the plaintiffs was given in the following undefended cases:— Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. v. S. A. Christie (Houipa.pa), £42 11s, claim for money lent, with costs (£4 3s (id); Brown, Ewing and Co., Ltd. v. F. Meason i (Kurow) £2 Os Id, claim for goods supplied, with-costs (£1 3s Gd); Charles Buchan v. A. Nicholson £1 10s, claim for goods supplied, with costs (10s); E. A. O’Malley v. Gordon Mare (Milburn) £4 12s Cd, claim for goods supplied, with costs (£1 Ds 6d) ; John Edward Butler, Ltd. v. H. Pearson (Feilding) £l4 7s 2d,’ claim for goods supplied, with costs (£2 14s); L. Di M‘lver, Ltd. v. William Curran (Invercargill) £2 7s, claim for costs only; F. J. E. M‘Kay v. ; Ernest G. Dudley (Nelson) £3 ss, claim for, goods supplied, with costs (£1 4s Gd); John Edward Butler, Ltd. v. Newton Claude Fairs (Whakatane) £l2 4s Bd, claim for goods supplied, with costs (£2 14s) ; S. R. Stedman v. Frederick ,Wright £3 19s 9d, claim for goods supplied, with costs (£1 Gs Gd); Oswald M. Smith and Co., Ltd. v, W. Hutton (Napier) £l3 lls scl, claim for goods supplied, with costs (£2 14s); J. Harvey and Co, v. Robert M'Neill (Otakou) £l7 18s Cd, claim for goods supplied, with costs (£2 18s); J.' A. Belsey ■ ,v. James Dee (Mataura) £4, claim for taxi hire, with costs (£1 Ss Cd); Penman .and Jackson y. Henry Rigby £SO, claim for money owing, with costs (£4 2s 6d^. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.

Edmund James Smith and the New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd. v. Alfred Edward Laney, claim for £l2.—The defendant was ordered to pay the amount ■claimed with costs (£1 3s), in default 12 days’ imprisonment. Butterfields’ Ltd. v,. William H. Armstrong, claim for £1 8s with costs (6s), in default two days’ imprisonment. RESERVED JUDGMENT. Reserved decision was given in the ease in which Joseph George (Kahuika) proceeded against Albert. Adam Wright and C.- H. M‘K. Wright (Oamaru) on a claim to. recover £238 9s 8d made up of special damages totalling £l3B 9s 8d and general damages amounting to £IOO, arising out of an exchange of properties.—After having reviewed the evidence the magistrate gave judgment for the • defendants, who were allowed costs (£l2 19s) in addition to further witnesses’ expenses.