THE PICTURESQUE ATLAS.
THE COMPANY IN COURT. (By Telegraph.) DUNEDIN, July 21. At the R.M. Court to-day evidence was beard in the oases brought by Bowerman Bros., Wellington, agents of the Picturesque Atlas Company of Australasia, against some Peninsula residents, for the balance duo on promissory notes. For the defendants it was contended that they had been swindled into signing the agreement, that one of the defendants bed signed what he thought was a blank sheet of paper, while the other said if there was any printing on the paper he signed it was covered by paper. In each case defendant s wore that what ho gave the order for was an alius dealing with New Zealand. Iho agent who got the signatures was not Bowerman. When the parts were delivered the objection was made that they would be worn out before the whole lot were delivered, whereupon Bowerman produced a bound copy, and delivery was taken, still under the impression that the atlas related to New Zealand, the purchasers only glancing at the portrait of Captain Cook. Promissory notes were given, and now the defendants refused to pay , these notes. Judgment was reserved.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6274, 22 July 1890, Page 3
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