BUYING A LAUNCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 214, 8 September 1921, Page 7

BUYING A LAUNCH.

A COMPLICATED BUSINESS. A case was opened before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., to-day, in which the troubles of a lady in getting a launcJi were detailed. Mrs. Eileen Kate Nestor Adams (Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, instructed by Earl, Kent, and Massey) sued Peter A. Smith (Mr. Leary) to recover £150, alleged to be due for the hull of one launch, and engine of another. The facts, as opened by Mr. Dickson, were that Darcy Stewart Snow, conducted a transaction for plaintiff's husband. Colonel Noel Percy Acton Adams. He saw defendant in town, and purchased the Ethel \V. launch for £290. As the engine was not found satisfactory, another boat, the Redwing, was bought, but that was subsequently destroyed by fire. Snow then, it was alleged, sold the engine of the Ethel W. to defendant for £40. As it was impossible to get another engine for the Ethel W., the launch Defender was next bought for £250 for the sake of the engine. The engine was transferred to the Ethel W., and the hull ef the Defender, it was claimed, was sold to Smith for £130. This, however, did not prove satisfactory. A man named Bennett, who had sold a launch named Komatinui to Smith, suggested it should be swapped for the Ethel W., which was agreed upon. It was claimed for plaintiff that the cost of removing the engine from the Defender to the Ethel W. was thrown in when the swap took place. Plaintiff therefore claimed to recover £150, as the sum of £20 had been paid by defendant. Mr. 'Dickaon inquired: "Does your Worship see the point?" Whereupon Mr. Poynton replied (sadly): "I see several points." (Proceeding.)