DISPUTED PROMISSORY NOTE.
A POINT QF LAW. • :' ' :';'■'■;'■. v '■■■:■;. [BT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Dargavilee, Wednesday. An interesting legal claim was heard today, by Mr. Scott Smith, S.M., in which a local business' firm sued a half-cast© woman for the amount of a promissory note signed jointiy by herself and her half-caste husband. The note bore no translation,; and had not been interpreted to the defendants. , The defendants' solicitor, Mr. Edmunds, contended that under statute provisions a translation of the instrument previous to its being signed was imperative. He produced licensed interpreters' evidence in support thereof, and further based his argument on a decision given by Mr. Justice Conolly in the Auckland Supreme Court eight y«irs ago, to the effect that, despite any degree of culture or, education, a half-caste must in legal proceedings be treated as a Maori. , , - Mr. Coates, for plaintiff, argued to the contrary, . and judgment was reserved in order that His Worship might consult the Supreme • Court judgment cited*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 6
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160DISPUTED PROMISSORY NOTE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 6
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