RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 160, 4 February 1868, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before J. Giles, Esq., MB., E.I. Monday, Feb. 3. 'the attempt to discharge a loaded PISTOL. John Trafford, charged with attempting to shoot his wife at the Boatman's Arms, and remanded from Saturday, was again brought up and bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, himself in £l5O and two sureties in £IOO each. CRATE V. LAKGFORD. This was an appeal case from a former hearing before T. A. S. Kynnersley, Esq., in which Longford sued Crate for £2O detained by him on a partnership transaction, and on which judgment was given for Langford. Mr Pitt, who appeared for Mr. A. Pitt, of Nelson, drew the Magistrate's attention to a Government Gazette of January 6th, in which Langford was gazetted bankrupt. The Magistrate, after hearing the plaintiff, who proved that the £2O which he had paid into Court at the end of the former trial did not cover money actually disbursed by him in the partnership transaction first alluded to, overruled the former decision, and nonsuited the then plaintiff; and he said that as Crate had proved various payments exceeding in amount the money he had paid into Court, and as the said money was paid in November, some time before the defendant filed his schedule, the plaintiff was entitled to be repaid the £2O. There were several cases brought on for hearing, but as Mr Kynnersley was absent, and as Dr. Giles was not qualified at present to hear cases under the Extended Jurisdiction Act, they were adjourned for a fortnight.