During the hearing of judgment summons cases in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., made it clear that if judgment debtors did not come to Court to explain their , financial position.- the CouTt was bound to make orders against them. Many debtors, said his Worship, wero inclined to treat judgment summonses with disdain, until, when they wero arrested, they found that there was actually something in those summonses. "Those persons who happen to be in the unhappy position of being sued on judgment-summonses," concluded his Worship, "must come along to tho Court and explain their positions, and I think they can trust the Court to deal w'ith them at least liberally. At any rate the Court will nqt send them to gaol if they have no reasonable hope, ;of.,paying the amoilDt,"-
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 6
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