A PARTNERSHIP CASE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12474, 26 February 1909, Page 3

A PARTNERSHIP CASE.

ALLEGED MISREPRESENTATION - SEVERE CONDEMNATION. [United' Press" Association: ]* ■ „ . ... Palmerston North, Feb 25. ?.A't the Supreme Court to-day, beforeLMr Justice Cooper, Donald) sued Charles Fitzgerald to recover £500 alleged to have been obtained by. misreprenentation, also for dissolution of partnership agreement. Mr Gifford Moore,, who appeared for the % Elaintiff, said defendant had enticed' is client to put £500 into a sawmill at Tokomaru by .misrepresentation. A quantity of evidence was taken. His Honor, gave judgment for tho plaintiff for the. £527 obtained by defendant from plaintiff and declared the partnership agreement void, on the ground of fraud. He also ordered the defendant to pay interest" on the amount at 8 per cent from the time the money was paid - over *to date. Costs were also allowed ; on the highest scale. " # #.. -...- Mr justice Cooper said either one 3ide or the other had committed ;deliberate perjury, arid he ordered all the exhibits to be impounded. .