DAMAGES CLAIM SETTLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20930, 21 July 1931, Page 11

DAMAGES CLAIM SETTLED.

SALE OF WAIKATO FARM. FRAUD ALLEGATION WITHDRAWN [FROM OUR OWN . CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Monday. "You will be pleased to learn, Your Honor, that the parties have arrived at an honourable settlement, and that the Court has been saved a two days' trial of a somewhat unpleasant kind," said Mr. F. A. Swarbrick before Mr. Justice Jlerdman in tho Hamilton Supremo Court to-day, with reference to a case in which Robert Give Tuke, farmer,' Cambridge, sought to recover £2737 damages and tho rescission of a contract to purchase & farm. The defendant was Wiiliam Seymour Brunskill, farmer, Cambridge. Mr. Swarbrick appeared for plaintiff and Mr. A. H. Johnstone for defendant.

Mr. Swarbrick said plaintiff had unreservedly withdrawn all allegations of fraud. Mr. Johnstone said his client acknowledged that since plaintiff purchased defendant's farm at Whitehall, an area of 303 acres, prices had fallen, and plaintiff had had a very difficult time financially. Defendant had been anxious to assist plaintiff, but when the latter had alleged fraud, defendant had refused to take any action. Now that these allegations had been unreservedly withdrawn and defendant's character had been vindicated, an honourable settlement had been reached. It was stated later that defendant had taken back the farm and had refunded to plaintiif the major' portion of his deposit.