ASSAULT CHARGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 11

ASSAULT CHARGE

EX-PUBLICAN FINED Fines of £2 and costs for each offence were imposed by the Magistrate (Mr H. Morgan), In a reserved judgment delivered in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on Andrew Woods, of Pleasant Point, and formerly licensee of the St. Andrews Hotel, who was convicted on police informations of assaulting Liston Phillips Brown, a St. Andrews billiards and hairdressing saloon proprietor, and with behaving in a disorderly manner. The prosecutions arose out of an affray in a billiards room on the evening of November 6 last. After reviewing the evidence, the Magistrate said he accepted the evidence of Brown and Coory as reliable that defendant had assaulted Brown. He was also satisfied that defendant was responsible for the disturbance which followed and that his conduct was disorderly behaviour. On the civil claim by Brown against Woods for £134/16/9 damages for actual and probable loss of business and custom, on account of defendant’s conduct and actions, and for the alleged wrongful detention of certain articles, the Magistrate found there that the plaintiff had proved no loss of custom nor that he had taken certain goods. In non-suiting plaintiff on the claim, the Magistrate declined to allow costs to the defendant on the ground that his conduct did not entitle him to any allowance under this head.