NELSON.—TUESDAY, APRIL 28.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 2

NELSON.—TUESDAY, APRIL 28.

DEBT CASES

Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Mr. J. S. Evans, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday in the following cases:—E. B. Moore (Mr. Wise) v. Matthew Toohey, claim for £34 19s Bd, costs £3 16s;1 Claude John Nelson (Mr. Wise) v. Joseph Richards, £14, costs £1 10s 6d; F. and D. Edwards (Mr. Fell) v. John Morgan Richards and' John Henry Powell, £35, costs, £2 17s ;■- A. E. Ta-sker and S. C. Levien (Mr. Wise) v. John McKegney, £4 0s Bd, costs 10s. In the judgment summons case Sidney Y. Wearihg v. E. E. Cohen, a debt of £10 2s Bd, Mr. W. V. .Rout applied for an order. There was no appearance of the Judgment debtor, who was .ordered "to pay the amount within seven days, in default 14 days' imprisonment. In the case of William Joseph Doyle v. E. E. Cohen, a debt of £5 Is, judgment debtor was ordered to pay the amount within seven days, in default seven days' imprisonment, to be cumulative" with the default in the previous order.

In the case of Claude Snow (Mr. Houlker) v. Louis George Whiting, a debt of £4 os, the judgment < debtorgave evidence. The Magistrate said that he was not satisfied with the answers given by defendant, who_ was ordered to pay the amount within 14 clays, in default 14 days' imprisonment. The Magistrate remarked that in judgment summons cases judgment debtors must come prepared with a statement showing their earnings. If their answers were uhs'atisfactory he would make orders.

In the case Frank Richardson (Mr. Harley) v. George C. Patterson, a debt of £4165, judgment debtor was ordered to pay the amount within seven days, in default 14 days' imprisonment.