IN BANKRUPTCY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 14

IN BANKRUPTCY.

BE CHAB.LETON AND CO. A creditor's petition for adjudication. Mr A. ri. Adams appeared for the petitioning , creditor, William Taylor, merchant, and said ; there was no notice of any opposition. The , respondents weire Elsie C'harieton. William Charleton, and Arthur Charl^ton, doing business ti'H recently at North-East Valley &3 fruiterers under the name of Mrs Charleton and Co., and there present whereabouts were unknown. The grounds of the application that respondents be adjudicated bankrupt were t return of r.vila bona .to a distress warrant, and their having left their place of business in order io avoid payment. To prove the facts Mr Adams called as witnesses William Taylor and Thomas Pryor. William Taylor deposed that he had supplied Charleton and Co. with goods (not paid for) to the amount of £43 5s 4d. He did not know what had become of Mrs Charleton and her husband and son. Their shop at North-East Valley was closed, and the parties had given him no notice of their intention to close the shop. He had applied for payment while the premises were open. Thomas Pryor, fruit merchant, gave evidence that he had had dealings with the firm of Mrs Oharleton and Co.. North-East Valley. He took action against the firm in the Magistrate's Court and obtained judgment for a debt of £49 odd. Ho know that William Charleton had, before this judgment was obtained, shipped goods to Timaru under an assumed name (that of William Armstrong), and lie disappeared' from Dunedin, taking, he believed a two-wheeled van and a horse and harness. On the occasion wheu he went down to the Charleton's shop, waiting for the arrival of a distress warrant he had obtained, he saw a load of goods being taken away up town, and heard that two other loads had gone previously. His Honor made the order of adjudication prayed for.