PURCHASE OF A CAR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 December 1926, Page 5

PURCHASE OF A CAR.

ALLEGED WRONGFUL SEIZURE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION .) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 2. A case in which plaintiff claimed compensation for the alleged wrongful seizure of a motor car was heard in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice StriSger. M. H. Cfook and Go., Ltd., land agents, claimed that Herbert Henry Gook, a director of the firm, agreed to purchase front defendants, W. L. and H. E. Sliief, of Dunedin, a car for £535, taking in another car for £230, and giving two promissory notes for £152 10s each for tlie balance. Delendants later seized the oar, claiming that Cfook had broken the terms of the hire purchase agrement under which they claimed the car was sold. - Gook alleged that he had signed Die second document not knowing its contents. and asked for the return of the oar and compensation. After lengthy evidence had been heard, the parties came to an agreement by which plaintiffs would pay the first instalment and give security tor the second. His Honour said Gook was not entitled to compensation and must pay his own costs.