JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 872, 25 November 1916, Page 10

JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.

DEBTORS IN EXPLANATION. To-day was judgment summons day at the Magistrate's Court, when Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided over the sitting. CONDONING AN OFFENCE. Campbell Bros. (Mr Dougall) asked for an order against Charles Henry Laseelles, tor the payment of £ls 18/10. The creditor alleged that the debt had been contracted by fraud. Charles Henry Laseelles said he was a canvasser. He denied obtain-} ing the sacks, the subject of the debt, from the creditor, by falsely representing that he was purchasing them; for the New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association, Ltd. Colin Campbell, one of the credi-! tors, said that when Laseelles pur-! chassed the sacks there was some haggling about the price. Laseelles, said he would see the Farmers' Co-j operative Association and ascertain j if it would agree to the price. Sub- j sequently, Laseelles returned, and I l said the Farmers' Co-op. would ac- j cept the price. He then signed an! invoice on behalf of the Co-op. The! invoice had been handed to a detective, but no criminal proceedings: were taken as £8 had been paid on! i account to stop the matter going l | further. | "Well, I've no sympathy with you,"i said the Magistrate. "By accepting ihat money you condoned the offence.! , If you do business on those lines you will very soon lirid yourself in (rouble. You had a good case i against the man until you accepted! I that money." No order was made. I RACECOURSE PROSPERITY. j j "I can't make an order againsUthis ] man," said the Magistrate, "I know ] I his position well." The case was one in which S. M. ! Din, a Hindoo, asked for an order against Harrv Thompson for the payment of £2 8/-. The debtor, however, war. put in the witness box, and said he was paying £3 a month under other orders. His earnings averaged £2 5/a week. He had a counter-claim against the creditor for £2 0/0. He was employed by the Canterbury Jockey Club during race meetings, ■ and while there never betted. "I suppose," said the Magistrate to | the creditor, "that because you saw | the debtor riding about with a red coat on at the racecourse you thought I he was a man of substance?" "He told me he earned £5 a day ; there," replied Din. | No order was made. I A MAN OF SUBSTANCE. "This man should be able to pay," | said the Magistrate when John Louis ! Carl (Mr Thomas) was asked to i show cause why he could not pav a I debt of £lsl 15/2 to Lada Leiih iPhilpot (Mr Wright). j I "So he can,J' replied Mr Thomas, I I "he had to meet a mortgage, but will i be in a position to settle this debt j in a month, if you will adjourn the ! case." ; Mr Wright said he would prefer ; an order to be made, but it could be : suspended for a month. I Mr Bishop: Well, the man is a man of substance, I believe, Mr Wright? Eventually the case was adjourned, !by consent, until December 0. Costs were allowed to the creditor. REJECTED FOR SERVICE. F. D. Kesteven Rowc) asked I for an order against Jose Gunderson I for the payment of £0 18/-. j "But hasn't this man enlisted?" queried the Magistrate. Mr Thomas: I understand he has not yet been passed by the medical people. His solicitor, Mr Alpers, told me this. Mr Bishop: Oil, in that case, I will make an order. The order was made for payment | at the rate of 30/- a week, in default ' six (lavs' imprisonment. A SOLDIER'S EARNINGS. ! H. Kerrigan, who' was called upon I lo show cause why he could not pay j F. I). Kesteven (Mr Thomas) the sum | of £7 12/6, said he was a soldier in ] the artillery (home service) earning ! 5/- a day. He had a wife and one ! child. | The application for the order was I refused. j- A SUFFICIENT REASON. j No order was made in the case of ) Robert James Byrne (Mr Wright) j against Alexander Robert Forbes. The amount of the debt was £25 11/-. The debtor said he was employed as a carrier at £2 15/- a week. He was a married mnn with six children, the eldest of whom was 13 years old. AN UNDEFENDED CASE Robert Moffett was ordered to pav P. and D. Duncan, Ltd. (Mr L. Dougall), £25 14/7 forthwith, in default one month's imprisonment,