A BILL OF SALE.

NZ Truth, Issue 183, 19 December 1908, Page 5

A BILL OF SALE.

SHYLOCK CURLETT AGAIN! An Interesting Point. Huston Curlett, moßey-lender, who demands his pound of flesh with great ye-' hemence m the Cathedral Uity, came into further prominence the other day, when .the case of Thomas Kincaid v. Godwin E. Laming and Ethel May Laming, a claim for £43 18s Bd, was heard. The Lammgs are boardin/Hioiise keepers, &nd when they were sued Ourlctt ' came to light with a bill of sale over their personal effects and interpleader, to use a law term. The bill-of-sale was made m October, ISO 7, when Curktt advanced the sum of £385. Curlett seems to do most oi his business through Lawyer Dougali, of Dougali and Upham, at whose office a Jot of his loans rhave been negotiated. His registered place of business is his own private house, and as the Moneylenders' Act provides that Shy lock shall transact . his business at his registered address, the moneylender who does otherwise (according to Solicitor Wright, /who appeared for Kincaid) . IS LIABLE TO A FINE OF £XQO, or ■.three months' imprisonment. Moreover, ihe whole of the transactions outside of ; $he n gis ered address are null and voiti, and the securities obtained thee-iy are wo.itlil ss ; In the, present case, L'urk'tt said le saw Liming at his (Cureft s) lose and also at Laming's home, and the nionoy was subsequently paid over i,y cheijiue through Dougali. He acknuwltdgtd iie.o'i ting lons at Douuall's office, a iact corroborated by other witnesses. According to bpha'm, Dout>aH's partner, the security was prepared by him and was signed !>y the Lamings m his presenoe. In • the circumstances, IVIr Hunter, who appe . red for Ourlett, applietl for an adjournment to consider the law point , raised by Mr Wright. Magistrate Bishop granted the request.

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