A TELEGRAPH AGENCY CASE.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4317, 31 May 1879, Page 5

A TELEGRAPH AGENCY CASE.

[Br TsiwsaAix.] . i WELLm<3TON, May SO. Yzg ißiiiiger of tio New Zealand Frese eßsd in tbe District Conrt the late " CoTapanj for £187 & Sd for .yesjj serviaes end telegrams lupplied. Ui Stefford, wbo appeared for defendant, fjised foar objecticice. First. That as agent gggji as tte masag-er, could not ens a fgjsdoti trithont antiority. Second. That by of Frauds the contract tras not good. ■ftsthir' and fourth objections were praeticaUy jj tins effect: —That tfcs members of the Afisociafjßß *ere parteers, and could not proceed ggstott each otber in that way. Sfr Siew* right, in th« elai«n of the pliistiff, said that the coarse adopted by the Jpposisg counsel was cot ereditab'e. The Magistrate interposed, saying that bad to do with the question, which was pgrff one of law. He eaid he saw that the yge was bristling' with dinicoitiea from the jHt, As the Offort was one of kw, and not ef apritr. the case must be decided tbe same as jf ia tie Snpreae Conrt Be held that three of tJai objections raised by Mr Stafford were good, tie Mcend Wing bad, aad he non-suited the djistiffH is understood that the object of the defence es i> protect the interest of the creditore of tSteoampany, which is in liquidation, and that $gtt wta a farther heavy claim of the AssociiBasepanst the company which would hare been ■sai tar had the present case resulted in faror ef tkepUistiff.