An Important Decision.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 148, 28 May 1885, Page 3

An Important Decision.

A. case of some importance to the public came before the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday. Mr J. Coogan, tailor, Manners-street, Bued Mr Edward Geissen, a Civil servant for £16, which plaintiff, claimed for clothes supplied to the defendant's son, a youth 19 years of age, who had been a clerk m the Public Works Department, but who had lately shipped from Lyttelton for England. Mr Geissen stated that the clothes had been -supplied to his son without his authority or consent ; that he told his son several times he had more clothes than he required ; that the lad received £120 a year, out of wliich he paid his parents only £1 per week for his board. After hearing the evidence, Mr Wardell, R.M., said the plaintiff must bear the result of his own rashness, and he did not think there was any legal liability on the pan of the defendant. He must establish the principle that if any tradesman chose to take the risk, he must stand the consequences. He should ascertain whether the soil had the approval of the father, before supplying the goods. Mr Devine : It is a very hard case. Mr Wardell : It is a monstrous tiling that credit should be given to a son m the way it had been m tins case, and then come upon the father. The case was dismissed, defendant being mulcted m costs. >