EXPLOITING AN EXPLORATION COMPANY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2368, 20 July 1899, Page 15

EXPLOITING AN EXPLORATION COMPANY.

A VERDICT FOR THE COMPANY. WELLINGTON, Juiy 12.

In the Supreme Court; to-day a new trial was begun in the case of the General Exploration Company v. Edward Purser, a claim of £36,000. The. case was originally heard at Blenheim, when a verdict was given for the defendant, but a new trial was ordered by the Appeal Court on the ground of misdirection by the judge, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. A change of venue was also obtained on the ground that the case could not be tried fairly at Blenheim. Mr Justice Denniston is again hearing the case. Mr H. D. Bell and Mr Myers appear for the company, Mr Brown for the defendant. \ Mr Bell, in opening the case, incidentally j alluded to Mr Pielsticker, who figured j prominently in the first trial, having disgorged something to the company, but the [.amount was not stated. Twelve of the witnesses in the case are aboard -the Dingadee, which is detained in the' Strait by stress of weather. *

July 14.

In the Supreme Court to-day in the case of the General Exploration Company v. Edward Purser, a claim of £36,000, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed. Mr Bell, who appeared for the plaintiff company, announced that; a cable message had been received from the Exploration Company to -the effecb that Charles Pielsticker, with whom Purser had carried on negotiations, forming the groundwork of the action, had refunded £8000. This sum was accordingly deducted from the amount claimed, and judgment entered for £28,000, with costs according to scale.

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