CIVIL BUSINESS. A COMPLICATED MATTER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14010, 15 September 1909, Page 4

CIVIL BUSINESS. A COMPLICATED MATTER.

(Before his Honour alone.) Edwin Pawson, of Ohakune, saw miller< and Graham Patterson, of Daime- • virke, accountant, formerly trading as h. Pawson and Co., saw millers, Ohakune sued Robert Herman WaUath , and Henry David Wallath, trading together as Wallath Brothers, buillert etc. New Plymouth, for £'188 Bssd for timber sold and delivered. tiff?' i H iM W& F in n ' Lp F* r< » i fot> pWnfondant *' d » h *>' de " The case soon proved very nomnli niiStiff While «/«*wfiZi snfc Plaintiff was under cross-examination Ins Honour, who had already comment1 nttZ^nJ *}£"* Upon th ? anintelUgible > ".?;"" of . th ? case, said to counsel- , It is quite intolerable that I should j are to make up your accounts for [ J«u. It is surely possible for you ' in ,!T! c f P debit * nd credit accounts » '» proper form. You are simply pitch- - forW thw thing at me. tiVabso- > lute y unintelligible on both sides I . shall adjourn the case until 10 o'clock r to-morrow morning, when you must , bring me m a statement of debits and ; credits that shall be intelligible, otheVwu* I shall adjourn the cale uitU the • next sittings of the court." His Honour accordingly adjourned the case and proceeded wjth other bS