ADJOURNMENT REFUSED
CASE WITHDRAWN FROM COURT.
JUDGE “HAS SUSPICIONS.”
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 30.
Remarking that he had a suspicion the plaintiff was playing with the Court, Mr. Justice Herdman to-day refused to grant an adjournment of an action brought by Harry Clinton McElwain, company manager and a promoter of the Speedwell Oil Company, against R. N. Chisholm (accountant), E. W. Lane (farmer), Richard Arthur (engineer) and E. Smerdon (jeweller). Plaintiff alleged malicious persecution and claimed £5OOO damages. His counsel, who was engaged only on Monday, was granted permission by the judge to withdraw* and the case was struck gut.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 5
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