SHEEP STATION SALE
£SOOO DAMAGES CLAIM, FRAUD ALLEGATION FAILS [BY TELEGRAPH —PHESS ASSOCIATION'] INVERCARGILL, Thursday Reserved judgment has been given by Mr. Justice Kennedy, dismissing the claim of plaintiffs in the Manapouri station case, heard in the Supreme Court at Invercargill in May. This was a civil action in which John Mac Donald, of the Manapouri station, Mossburn, and Archibald Alan MacDonald, of Waipori, both sheepfarmers, sought to recover from John Mac Donald, of Invercargill, company manager, and Angus Mac Donald, of the Plains Station, Mossburn, sheepfarmer, the sum of £SOOO as damages for alleged fraudulent misrepresentation with respect to the purchase by plaintiffs in 1929 for £15,000 of the Manapouri station.
Plaintiffs alleged that they had been deceived into payinjj £SOOO too much for the property, and the statement of claim set out the alleged misrepresentations.
Plaintiffs' action for damages was dismissed, with costs against them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21875, 10 August 1934, Page 12
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