A PROPERTY TRANSACTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13768, 5 June 1908, Page 6

A PROPERTY TRANSACTION.

SHEEP FARMER'S CLAIM. [tii' TKLtfiRAI'JI.— ASSOCIATION'.] EI. r. I <:, TON, Thin,-day. The Supreme Com: was occupied Jo-da* in hearing the civil case, Leigh v. Strand. The plaintiff, John M. Leigh, sheep farmer, of Lower Hutt, according to the statement of claim, instructed William T. Strand, timber merchant, of Lower Hutt, to purchase for him certain lands, comprising altogether 22 acres I rood 5 perches, at a price not to exceed £200 per acre, and plaintiff agreed to pay defendant for his services 25 per cent, of the profit plaintiff might make on a resale. The purchase was arranged at £200 per acre, and plaintiff paid £4624 for the properties, and also paid defendant £650 for his services, Subsequently plaintiff discovered that defendant hud got the properties fnuii the vendors for £2960, and. it was alleged, appropriated the balance of £1664 to his own use. He therefore claimed the £1664 and the £630 paid to defendant for In* •service?, a, total of £2294. The defence was that the defendant had bought, the properties tor himself, and resold them to the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff understood this. Defendant said the payment of £630 was in respect ol another transaction. A number of witnesses were examined, and the. case was not finished when the Court lose for the day.