MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17455, 5 February 1925, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr H. W. Widdowson, S.M.) BY-LAW CASES. Claude Adam and Ronald Palmer, two youths aged sixteen, were each fined 10s for cycling on the footpath. CIVIL BUSINESS. UXDEFEND ED C A sJtS. Judgment was given for the plaintiff in the following undefended cases:— Slater. Sargent and Dale v. AY. J. M’Lough 1 in, £3 3s ; F. D. Kesteven v. A. M’Conachie. costs only; Brown, Tiittle and Co. v. Thomas Austin £l2 ss; Canterbury Builders v. AY. Miller. £1 10s; Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd. v. A. Sbaw, £l2 1.1 s; Johnston and Couzins. Ltd. v. R. Hewitt, £4 13s 6d; AA'a.rdell Bros, and Co. v. AY. A. Jones. £7; H. Matson and Co. v. AVilliam Long. £2 13s 9d ; same v. Pattrick Clough. £3 0s 9d; Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd. v. J. 1 Leonard. costs only: J. F. Morriss v. G. H. Edwards. £lO 10s; Johnston Sons and Co. v. Eric AVilliam M’Murtrie, £ll ss; same v. G. R. Brown, £lO os; Verne, Collins and Co.. Ltd. v. Gerald C. Greening. £1 17s 5d ; B. O. Priddis v. Stanley Thomas. £22 10s; New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. v. Stan lev Kingston, £l2O 17s; Norman Shaw'v Henry Coull, £3 10s : \Y. Berrvman v A. L. Taylor. £8 13s Gd ; same v. X M. Byers, £3: Charles S. Thomas v. 1). Gurdler, 10s 6d : same v. O. R. Butterfield, £3 13s Gd ; G. F. Simpson v. 10. AYoodham, £59; Beath anti Co., Ltd. v. T. Reillv. £3 3s: A. Rodie v. V. Keys, £5 12s Gd ; C. F. Howell v. Norman Johnson, £l7 14s Gd : M. O'Brien and Co., Ltd. v. C. T. Morris,' £32 2s 2d; Turnbull and Jones v. AJennings, £1 3s 9d : AAeeks, Ltd. v. Al. E. Williams, £-3 11s Rd: same v. Gip Bor, £3 12s 9d; A. T. Burt. Ltd. v. G. H. Edwards. £25 16s; Trade Auxiliary Co. of New Zealand. Ltd. v. H. Mel 1 or, 15s 3d: same v. R. SAY a torsion and Co.. £1 10s 3d: C. 8. Thomas v. C. V. Cotter, £lO 10s; R. Bradlev v. R. Brown, £SO: Canterbury Central Dairv Co. v. Mrs Al. Jennings. £3 11s: same v. Mrs H. Green, £2 0s 9d : New Zealand Tyre and Rubber Co.. Ltd. v. J. Pettit, £1 2s 3d; H. E. Partridge and Co., N.Z., Ltd. v. AY. J. AVilliams. £lO. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. Miss AY. Tweedale was ordered to pay the sum of £ll 9s to J. J. Ardagh in default twelve days’ imprisonment. A'ictor Toh-hard was ordered to pay the sum of £9 7s Gd to Jean Hamilton, in default ten days’ imprisonment. J. A. Hobson was ordered to pav the sum of £l2 8s 2d to John Cook, Ltd., in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. AN UNSOUND HORSE. AA'. Roberts, company manager, Christchurch (Mr Tracy), claimed from H. Box, horse-trainer, Spreydon (Mr Twyneham) the sum of £SO, the amount which the plaintiff paid to the defendant for a horse which was warranted to he sound, quiet and broken ;o every kind of work in harness. It v as alleged that the horse haa none of these qua I tics, and was iherfore val ueless. Mr Twyneham admitted that Box was liable, and judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.