DEBTS CONTRACTED IN SON’S NAME
“SCOUNDRELLY ACTS OF FATHER” YOUNG MAN’S BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 14. “It appears that this young man has suffered grievously as a result of the scoundrelly acts of his father. The creditors recognised the position, and the Official Assignee is satisfied; I will therefore make an order for the annulment of tlie bankruptcy.” These were the words of His Honour Mr. Justice Frazer in the Bankruptcy Court this morning, when an application was made for the annulment of the bankruptcy of Vernon Lyell Aley, a carpenter, of Auckland. Mr. Wills, who appeared for the applicant, said that Aley had been forced into bankruptcy through the acts of his father. His client, when made bankrupt, was only 21 years of age. His father had been made bankrupt and found he would not be able 1o carry on his occilpation as a builder on account of being denied credit. Young Aley was working on wages with a city firm of timber merchants. At the suggestion of his father the youth agreed in one instance that the father should purchase certain goods from the C. and A. Odlin Timber Co. in the name of Aley, junior. That was the only occasion on which counsel’s client had agreed to his father using the son’s name. Since then the father had continued to carry on operations, and had impersonated bls son right through.
Claims and accounts, said counsel, came by post addressed to V. L. Aley, care of the father. The son never received these, as they did not reach him, and he had no knowledge of what was going on. Tlie parents received all correspondence, the son being entirely ignorant of everything. Subsequently summonses were issued and judgment was obtained against the son by default. All the debts of the father had been contracted in the son’s name. Counsel said he had heard, in addition, that the same class of fraud had been committed on another son. The boy who had been so extensively victimised commenced to pay some of the debts from his wages, but v hen he found that he was involved in transactions amounting to several hundreds of pounds he could not go »n with the payments, and had filed a petition in bankruptcy. The creditors were now aware of what had happened, and had withdrawn all claims against young Aley, thus vindicating him. “Jly client has been ostracised by his family, relatives, and many of his friends, as a result of the bankruptcy proceedings.” said Mr. Wills. “As they had listened to the father's story they have sent him to Coventry. It is unfair to the boy, who was hoping to be married.”
Tlie Official Assignee said the facts as stated were substantially correct. The matter was now before the Crown Solicitor.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 11
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470DEBTS CONTRACTED IN SON’S NAME Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 11
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