SOLICITOR’S ACCOUNTS
FAILURE TO PRODUCE. (Per Preßß Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 1. A summons for contempt of Court against George Grey, solicitor, was mentioned in the Supreme Court proceedings initiated by the Deputy Official Assignee in the estate of Henry L. Martini, the grounds of complaint being that Grey had not complied with an order of the Judge to render accounts ih the estate ‘within one month. Two and a half months had then: plfiDseo. Mr P. Grey, a partner in the firm, said that his father had been ill, and counsel had been working long hours in an endeavour to produce the accounts, which would occupy 100 pages The bill of costs alone was one of 50 pages. It would take at least a week to type them. No attempt had been made to evade responsibility. Counsel for the D.O.A. said that he did not want Grey’s body or his money in the form of a fine. He wanted the accounts. . Mr P. Grey : I say now that it cannot be done. . , His Honor: I have given my decision. ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1929, Page 4
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