IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have read your article on imprisonment for debt, and would bo glad if you would say how you would meet a case like mine. lam a tailer, and take orders on my own account. 'When a customer gives mo an order for a suit of clothes ho won’t pay the money ; I have to make them first, and, when finished, if I won’t lot them go without getting the cash, he says “ Well, keep them,” aud they are of no uso to mo and I am in for a heavy loss, and if I lot them go I cannot recover the price of them if he chooses to feel insulted when 1 ask him for payment. If what you propose becomes law. some protection should be given a man who cuts up material and spends time and money in making up to the order of a customer who, when they are finished, says he has not the money to pay for them.—l am, &c., James Wilkins. » April 21st, 1890. [Exceptional cases cannot rule. Every lawyer will tell you that hard cases are apt to make bad laws.— Ed. N.Z.T.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2800, 22 April 1896, Page 1
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