SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 2 September 1919, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

JL'DGatBNT AGAEXST A FARM

MANAGER.

(BY TELEOBAPH—-PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) '. CHIIISTCHURCEL, Sep. 1. Mr Justice Herdinan commented on | th«. extraordinary nature o4: a easel heard rto^day. . 'l'he Inchbonnie Estate Company; (Mr >Vright) / sued Joseph Thomas Searle for £4898- alleging that! defendant, .through faulty management■■•[ and losing or failing tb account for stock? and wooi 3 caused^ plaintifEs' loss.; It. was \ mentioned that ',■ defendant; had': written.' to plairitdffs' counsel that he would; not attend the,court, and did not know; how the judgment would be satisfied, j Mr Wright stated that defendant was manager of. the estate,, and failed to ac-| count for 291 cattle and 992 sheeby Tallied at £2786', and deliberately sent in false returns. The claim in regard to ttool was withdrawn. : ■ '' j ,B}videnee: was given ihat when1 asked i where the missing sheep and cattle were defendant repeatedly replied: ''In the bush,'" but witnesses were saitjsned that this was^ntruel v / -1;/;,':--:;^Av-;■ '--:':'\ Mr • Justice Herdman said lie police authofities should investigate "the mai-1 ter. He gave, judgment for £2786.