NO WILFUL FRAUD
FIRM IN LIQUIDATION ASSIGNEE’S CLAIM FATES (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. Justice Johnston gave reserved judgment to-day in the case in which the Official Assignee, as liquidator of Dodge Brothers, Limited, builders and coal merchants, sought a motion directing Frank Henry Albert Dodge and Corrie Redvers Dodge to pay him sums totalling £6Ol, of which £560 allegedly had hct'ii taken with intent to defraud the creditors, and the remainder incurred as debts when the company was insolvent. After traversing the evidence, tho judge said that the case put forward in support of tho motion had not been made out, and must be dismissed. The judge added that he did not think the Dodge brothers, in their struggle in the sea of difficulties, knowingly set out to defraud their creditors, or knowingly incurred liabilifiies which they knew could not be paid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 13
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