THE COMMISSION CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 228, 24 September 1894, Page 4

THE COMMISSION CASE.

The hearing of the csjsa Furness y. Webbe» in which the plaintiff cluimed the sum of £7 10a for worked journeys, and attendances, in connection with the sale of a piano by the London and Berlin Piano. Company to a purchaser alleged to havo been introduced by him, was continued ab the' Magistrate's Courb this morning before Mr H. W, Northcrofb, S.M. Mr Cotter appeared for tho defendant, and Mr Jackson Palmer for tho plaintiff. The case was adjourned from Friday last when moat of tho evidence was taken. This morning , Frederick Moore and Sydney Coldiculfc, employees of * the defendant, were called, sad gave evidence as to some conversations thao had. taken place in Mr Webba'e shop in respect of the sale of the piano. . Mr Northcroft, ia giving judgment, said that from the moment the purc'uasor of tho piano wrote the letter produced in Court, the back-bone of the case for the plaintiff had completely gone. Tho letter distinctly stated thab tho writer, in purchasing the piano, had nothing whatever to do with fche plaintiff, had neither accompanied him to the shop nor even knew the party who wan claiming the commission on the article he had bought. After thab moment fcbere had to be a change, and the line taken up by the plaintiff since thab admisalon waa rendered necessary. Aparb from thab, ib seemed to him a dreadful state of things if we were to havo persons, after listening to private conversations in draw-ing-rooms or anywhere else going immediately to those from whom ib was intended to buy a certain thing, in order to get commission. If this system were carried on we would havo to pay through the nose, because there were certain agents throughoub tho country ready to watch in drawing-rooms and other private places for opportunities to geb commission on any goods which it may be intended to purchase from shopkeepers. We would have to ask the person who comes into our drawing-room, "Are you an!agent," and then have bo discuss the matter in a bedroom when there was nobody aboub. He would give judgment for the defendant with £4 18a coats.