MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16424, 12 May 1921, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. CHRISTCHURCH. Mr S. E. McCarthy. S.M.. presided at to-day’s sitting of the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court.. drunkenness. Four statutory first offenders, wlio failed to appear, were convicted of drunkenness and fined the amounts of their respective this being £1 in three cases and 10s in the other. CIVIL CASES. A LANDLORD’S APPLICATION. Ocorgr Walter Burrows (Mr Tracy ) implied under the War Legislation Act. line, to have the rent of 100 Bealev Avenue raised. The tenant. Airs fc.. j.\ Bnrridße (Mr Mallev) opposed trie 11 ‘’Plaintiff’' said that the .Government valuation was £740. Dunne, the last nix years he had expended various sums iff monev on the property. The present rental of the house wa« £6*> a year. rj,o house was built in 1910. The rates and insurance were £9 17s 3d. Defendant said that she took pos- j session of the house m July. UT «. since . vi hen the only repairs was a small one j to the lavatory. . , The S M said that in accordance { with the Act a rental of £7o annually j was permissible. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. George William Prebble (Mr I>acr?>, Cottcrill Street, proceeded Samuel John and Mary Jane. Miles (Mr Thomas), Alcester Street, claiming .€IOO damages sustained in a collision in Marshlands Road on Sunday, January 9, last, such collision being alleged to have been due to the defendants’ negligence. Defendants counter-claimed for £lO9 4s. Plaintiff said that lie whs a newspaper runner, anti used a cycle, hi» earnings being about £4 17s Gs weekly He was also a lathe hand, and could easily earn 3s 6d an hour at that. His average income ws from £7 to .£8 poi week. He was an expert cyclist, and had not had a previous accident, npait from running ovei a dog. On this Sunday morning he was cycling on his right side of the road, at about fourteen to fifteen miles an hour. He saw defendant’s motor-cycle and side-cur coming on the wrong i.ide towards him and he eased up. They met bv Reeve’s Road, and defendant’s cycle came straight at him. without- warning. Just before the crash Mrs Miles put up her hand. He tried to stop his cvole by pressing his feet on the pedals. He thought that way was better _ than brakes. He was struck by the point of the side-chair, and had his arm broken and head injured. His cycle was also damaged. Ho was rendered unconscious mid taken to the hospital- He was for thirteen weeks unable to work, and j then resumed the paper deliveries. He j «v«*s unfit to resume lathing. He had ridden in two road races recently. To Mr Thomas: He could have gone between the motor-cycle and a milk•riirt. a*«d was heading towards it. when the- motor-cycle came at him. Dr J. Guthrie gave evidence as to the injuries sustained bv plaintiff. (Proceeding.) UNDEFENDED OASES. Judgment without costs for plaintiffs was given by default in the following cases Banks Peninsula Rabbit Board v. Thomas W. Wilkins, £7 IQs; same v. Thomas Thompson, £4 12s 7d ; same v. Samuel.E. Lelievre, £1 7s Ifd; same v. Charles Tunes, £1 6s 2d; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., v. W. H. Ryan, £22 15s 8d; W. I). P-rry and Co. v. C. Shortall, 229 19s 6d. J ÜBGMENT SUMMONS. A Macdonald was ordered to pay F. I). Tvesteven £6 15s in weekly instalments of £l, in default three weeks’ imprisonment. (Proceeding.)