A LAND SALE CASE.
[by TELEGRAPH.press ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. Judgment in the case of Johanna Flockton and George Leonard, a suit foi specific performance, which contained some very unusual features, was delivered by Mr. Justice Cooper, this morning. Plaintiff claimed the performance of an agreement for the sale by defendant to her of a piece of iand in Dixon-streeb for £700. The case was tried in March, and the defence set up was that the agreement was not sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds, and that defendant was too drunk at the time he executed the agreement as to be incapable of iraunderstanding its nature and effects. His Honor was of opinion as regards the first joint that there . was a sufficient agreement within the statute. As tc the other, defendant's witnesses had, in His Honor's opinion, greatly exaggerated Leonard's condition-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11630, 18 April 1901, Page 5
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