MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M.) Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in each of the following civil claims:—Southland Electric Power Supply v. A. P. Grieve (Balfour) for £1 2/6, costs 10/-; A. and A. C. Dickens Ltd. v. T. Birss (Mataura) for £2 10/-, costs £1 3/6; G. J. Yule v. T. J. Kane (Hororata) for £lO, costs £1 14/6; J. N. Colyer Ltd. (Dipton) v. Alexander Northcote (Balfour) for £7 16/10, costs £1 12/6; David Dobeck v. Henry Tucker (Winton) for £3 10/-, costs £1 4/6; J. N. Colyer Ltd. (Dipton) v. Arthur Grieve (Balfour) for £2 16/-, costs £1 5/6; Dr F. O. Mac Gibbon v. G. E. Evans for 10/6, costs 10/-; The Commissioner of Taxes v. Orville Edward Arnaud Randle for £3 11/4, costs 13/-; L. S. Brooks v. Stewart Brown for £5 12/6, costs £1 14/6; The Commissioner of Taxes v. Robert Heriot Ramsay for £ll 2/7, costs £1 3/-; George Moir and Son, Ltd. v. Charles Harris (Mount Somers) for £l5 3/5, costs £1 16/6; J. G. Crawford v. Frank V. Chenells for £4 14/6, costs £1 3/6; George Moir and Son, Ltd. v. John Thomas Mitchell (Wyndham) for £1 16/8, costs 8/-; Southland Education Board v. W. Tree (Tussock Creek) for £3 7/6, costs £1 11/6; Thomas Bros, v. William Cox (Gore) for 12/3, costs 8/-; R. G. Speirs and Co., Ltd., v. H. G. Crockett (Ohai) for 15/-, costs 12/-; Single Profit Stores Ltd. v. W. H. James for £3, costs £1 3/6. Reginald Holland was ordered to pay to his judgment creditor Edward John Wallis £2 2/6 forthwith, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. Tappers Ltd. (Mr B. W. Hewat) claimed from G. W. A. Todd (Mr G. J. Reed), a labourer, £8 6/—, being £6 outstanding for the purchase of a motor-cycle, £1 10/- expenses of repossession and 16/- freight. Counsel for Die plaintiff said that the defendant bought the cycle under an agreement, the purchase price being £ll. The defendant had paid £5 deposit and had agreed to pay £1 a month. Nothing further had been paid, however. Alfred Tapper, giving evidence, said the defendant had the motor-cycle for just over three months. The cycle had depreciated in that time by £B. The plaintiff company repossessed the machine, which would not go when it was returned. For the defendant Mr Reed contended that the plaintiff company could not expect the rights of both a hire-pur-chase agreement and a straight-out sale. The claim was settled in favour of plaintiff for £4 10/-, costs £2 8/-.