DISTRICT COURT.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2607, 21 April 1868, Page 4

DISTRICT COURT.

Saturday, 18th April. (Before his Honor Judge Ward.) The Court opened at 10 o'clack. MANTBLL V HICKLING. Action to recover tho sum of £34 15s 9d, due for work and labor done at the Bank Hotel, Manners street. Mr Buckley, for the defendant, stated that the summons had only been served on the 3rd inst, i and that by the act it ought to have been served fourteen clear days before the day of hearing. He therefore applied that the cuse should bo struck out of the list and not heard till next sittings of the Court. SQUIRES V SIM. Mr Allan for the plaintiff, Mr Borlase for defendant. Action to recover £50, being amount of damage sustained by trespass of defendant on land belonging to plaintiff. Judgment for Is. Each party to pay his own costs. SPACEMAN V HORNER. Mr Cheosman for plaintiff, Mr Borlaso for defendant. Action brought to recover £92 6s, balance of a sum of £250 the price of a mill at the Hutt, realised at sale by public auction. Adjourned till Monday. OWEN V HALES. On the case being called on neither party put in an appearance. RAYNER V IIICKSON. Mr J. Gr. Allan for plaintiff, Mr Borlaso for defendant. Aotion brought to recovor the sum of £32 3s 9d for work and labor done in fencing a boundary of certain hind at Rangitikei. Adjourned till next sitting. Tho Court then adjourned till 10 o'clock on Monday morning. Monday, 20th April. On tho Court resuming its sittings, the case of ANDERSON V AITKEN. was called. Tho defendant did not appear, and judgment went by default for £32 6s 6d and costs £17s. BRONSTEAD V E. PUNI. Mr Allan for plaintiff, Mr Pharazyn for defendant. Claim to recover £85 10s, balance due for the erection of a house and bnlance of wages. From ths evidence it appeared that the plaintiff had no claim for building tho house in question. His Honor decided that ho was, however, entitled to wages and gave judgment for £37 4s lid and costs £5 18s. SPACEMAN V HORNER. This case was adjourned till next sittings, in order to enablo plaintiff to take out an interpleader summons. The Court then rose.