DEBTOR'S PLEA CAUTERISED.
"IT'S 'HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU The scene was (he Magistrate's Court and the judgment debtor in tho box was a contractor who attributed bis inability to pay to the fact that a contract had not turned out profitably. Dr. M*Arthur, S.M., was on the Bench. "They coino here," said his Worship, "and if they have, had a good contract they sny nothing about it, and if they have bad a bad on« they want to get out of paying their debts. I will not have this Court mado a sort of infantile Bankruptcy Court." The debtor complained that' the cause of the loss on the contract was someone clso'.s fault. "It's always the way with yon fellows," went on his Worship, "if yoii make, it's through your own cleverness: if you lose, it's somebody else's fault. You will have to pay the money in fourteen days. lam tired of you fellows coming here with those yarns. It is 'Heads I win, tails you lose,' with you chaps every time."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 4
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173DEBTOR'S PLEA CAUTERISED. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 4
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