JUDGMENT AGAINST SOLICITOR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1933, Page 5

JUDGMENT AGAINST SOLICITOR

MONEY THAT WAS LENT AT INTEREST. CO-DEFENDANT SUBMITS A STATEMENT 1 . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The failure by Bertram Egley, solicitor, of Wellington, to repay a loan of £SOO and interest led to proceedings in the Supreme Court to-day, Mrs Laura Taylor, of Lower Hutt, bringing a suit against him. James Thomas Watson, secretary, named as Egley's guarantor, was joined as defendant. The claim set out that plaintiff, on May 7th, 1930, lent Egley £SOO, with interest at ten per cent. With the exception of £lO on account of interest, paid on December Ist, 1931, Egley had failed to make any payments. Demands had been made on Watson, but he had repudiated: the deed and denied liability. In his statement of defence, Watson denied that lie had made any agreement whereby he had guaranteed to plaintiff repayment of the principal sum and interest claimed by her. He said, further, that if his name appeared in a deed or agreement, his execution thereof was obtained fraudulently and on the representation that he was witnessing or attesting some document and that it was not disclosed to him that he was entering into a guarantee or was rendering himself liable to the plaintiff or any other person.

When the case was called, Air Barrett said that Egley had not filed a statement of tdefenc,e. Although a statement of defence had been filed by the other defendant, his solicitors had intimated that, on further consideration, they did not propose proceeding with it. Mr Justice Keed entered judgment for the plaintiff for £~>»± 10s, with costs according to scale, and disbursements.