MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2029, 16 August 1920, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

■ —,.——..-—■+ TO-DAY'S CASES. Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., presided over . a sitting of the Magistrate's Court to-day. Drunkenness.—Six first offenders were each fined 5/-, in default 24 hours' Imprisonment. A male statutory first offender ' was fined 10./-, in default 48 hours' im-j prisonment. A woman was fined 10/-, in [ default 21 hours' imprisonment, and a prohibition order was Issued against her at her own request. Annie Grant, 65 years of age, with 21 previous convictions involving drunkenness and wilful damage, pleaded guilty to a charge of ' drunkenness and to procuring liquor dur- : Ing the currency of a prohibition order. She was fined £5, in default 14 days' im- . prisonment, (n respect of the first charge,, and on the second she was convicted and ' ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. JUVENILE COURT. Remanded.—A 15-year-old boy, who was charged that, within the meaning of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, he. was not under proper care and control, was remanded to appear at Dunedin to-morrow. ' CIVIL CASES. Judgment by default was given for plaintiffs in the. following ease's.—Alexander Ed- ; ward McPhail and Albert Joseph Fisher v. A. H. Cooper, 17; Huick Sales, Ltd. v. Melville F. de la Cour, £0 10/-; Samuel Norman Robinson v. R. N. Wickham, £5 5/4; Beath and Co., Ltd. v. Wm. \V. Hughes, £3 16/-; Laura Elizabeth Young v. Frederick T. Ward, £22 10/-; S. Ward v. J. Lee, £3 7/11; Booth, Macdonald, and Co., Ltd. v. George Bennett, £2C 3/3; Tait, Bagrie Co., Ltd. v. Amelia Farrow Haybittle, £3 14/-; Lazarus Wolfe Balkind v. Henry Hughes and Fanny Hughes, £2 5/-. Tenement Cases.— —. Ellis, 16 Leeds Street, was ordered to give possession of a tenement to Frederick Waikato Dick ins on or before September 30. The Magistrate refused to make an order in respect of a claim for possession made by William Henry Atkinson against David Howell, who was allowed costs. No order was also made in a claim made by the'same plaintiff against Alfred Southerwood. Application for Rehearing.—On July 19, John Leggett proceeded against G. Anderson and Co. (Mr. W. Hobnn) for £3 15/in respect of the alleged wrongful act of defendant, a licensed auctioneer, in selling goods of the plaintiff below the reserve placed thereon. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £3 12/-, and Mr Hoban. on August 9, applied for a rehearing, decision being reserved. To-day the Magistrate, in giving judgment, refused the application, with costs 21/-. The grounds for the application were the discovery of fresh evidence, hut the Magistrate held that the suggested evidence would be a flat contradiction of that of plaintiff, and it would be a question of oath against oath. (Proceeding.)