TIMARU DISTRICT COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9992, 22 March 1893, Page 6

TIMARU DISTRICT COURT.

IT*B Fbibs Association.! TIMABTJ, Mabch 21. At tbs Patriot Court to*day, before Judge Robinson, the Christchurch civil ■nit wm begun, W. H. Hargreaves v. tha Timara Farmers 1 Co-operative Association, claim £173 6a 4d, the value of 197 tons 'of coal. Mr Fisher for plaintiffs; Messrs White and Kinnerney for the On Oct. 4 last C. W. Turner, as agent for plaintiff, sold defendant the coal, part cargo of the a.s. Prince Boudooin, and defendants refused to pay. In. defence that Turner sold to then as principal, and they were not aware of asy other principal behind him, and lfr.fr it was. agreed between them that tha Liooesde should be devoted in a particular way to the liquidation of Turner’s *ocount, then in debit with them. C. W. Turner was in the box half the day and though declaring that he jUIsI in id Inglis,. defendants’ manager, T|r fr.nj nnd, by memorandum, that Bara***™ waa interested, he admitted ♦writ WM not made clear that Hargreaves was tbs principal. In the memorandum wm. a. ativiilation drafted by Turner and ■iened fcy Inglis, that the value of the " *j f was to be placed to a special trust MMnnfc in connection with two shipmaster of g»i« to London, with instructive to pay to Hargreavee any balance fcon that account. Turner stated that a good surplus from the -Tklnments. whereas there were reclamatioSTplaiatiff stated that he bought 1400 tone of the coal cargo at 15a cash, and .rr.n>nd with Turner to sell a large proSSKf it at other port*. The quantity JsssJfor wm part of that, and 400 odd Amu Turner admitted to him having .3d and "under pressure” nsed the He had never in any way, £ defendants pleaded, confirmed or Turner’s action m regard to their wStin He had put it to the Directors ijaooiation through Inglis, that it IfJotlxnoral thing to take another woods to pay Turner’s debt, but the ivractmnireplied that they could not see Set way to make any offer. Plaintiff’s cm6-a not yet completed.