PASS'S FOOLISHNESS.

NZ Truth, Issue 252, 23 April 1910, Page 7

PASS'S FOOLISHNESS.

Sells Property Held m Trust.

Reginald Fass is a young man, who recently left Dunedin for Hingland. White he lived m New Zealand he was domiciled at Wood burn .Farm, near Balclutna (Otago), which bad been bought by the trustees of Reginald's late father. The place was run by a working manager, and Reginald was there apparently^ only to lend dignity to the place or to endeavor to learn the laborious duties of a geutleinau squattah. Anyway, early m February Reginald decided to return to Hingland, and he drove from the farm to Dunedin m a flash gig. This gig, together with a four-year-old gelding and a set of harness, he sold to one Henry Alexander, a horse-dealer, for £24. Now, there's nothing to stop a man selling his own property for a song,' but it becomes a different matter when ' the property isn't bis own, or when he merely holds it m trust. Therefore a suit for the recovery of the turnout was instituted m the Magistrate's Court by the trustees for old Fass— Adolf Henry Fass, Sir James Bailey, and Sir George Eliot Armstrong. These gentlemen claimed for the return of the turnout or £50. it was shown that Alexander had refused to return the property, although he bad been told that he would be recouped what he had paid Reginald ; and Alexander, m the witnessbox, said be bad soM the turn-out for £28 some time after he had received the summons m fche present case. Magistrate Widdowson gave judgment for the return of' the. turnout or the payment of £47, with &1 Us costs.