CURIOUS LAWSUIT.
(DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, February D. In the Resident Magistrate’s I'ourt to-day E. C. Moore sued E. ‘O. Twinning for £29 Ils 7d on a judgment summons. In the examination o£ the defendant it was elicited that he was a mining engineer, having no property now. On the 7th of last mouth, when judgment was given against him, be owned a house at Opoho worth £4OO, but it was mortgaged for £324. Ho had also an eighth share, valued at £llll, in the Nightcaps Coal Company. He had £75 worth of furniture, but that he had since so'd. He was being pressed by plaintiff and his other creditors, and on January 17th he, > y deed, assigned his estate to trustees for the benefit of ms creditors. He did not res ! st execution being put in his plaoe by plaintiff, but the house was locked up by the trustees. Witness did not think that he had a legacy of some £2OOO coming to him under a will. Witness made the assignment at the request of his creditors, but plaintiff would not con. sent to it, and wanted 20s in the £ at once. The share in the Coal Company was only nominally worth £llll. That was whatit had cost him, but it was hard to say what it would fetch if offered in the market. His Worship ordered * defendant to pay the amount claimed within 14 days, or in default 14 days’imprisonment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8006, 10 February 1887, Page 2
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