SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3384, 1 August 1885, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(By Telegraph.) CniiißTonußon, July 31. Tho Supreme Court wns occupied yesterday and to-day with tho civil notion Fowler and Co. t. R. Wilkin and Co. Tho plaintiffs aro tho well-known English manufacturers of agricultural machinery, and sought to recover £2158 (with interest) from the dofendants, morchants, of Christchurch. J. I. Carter, of Dunedin, had been agent for plaintiffs, and it was alleged had appointed tho defontants joint agents. In 1882 tho defendants sold machinery for which they wcro paid £2168. Plaintiffs had demanded an account and payment of this sum, but- tho defondnnts had refused to do cither. Tho plaintiffs prayed for accounts and payment of the sum named, otc. The defondants donied that thoy had known Carter to bo agont for plaintiffs, and that thoy had boon appointed joint Bgonta or accepted such appointment, or that they had hold and sold machinery for tho plaintiffs. Thoy alleged thoy had treated Carter as v principal, and iv ao-

cordance with the custom of trade here had accounted to him for tho machinery, so that, m fact, a balance was now due to them, instead of anything being due by them, on account of the sales which thoy admitted had taken place through them. The jury found a verdict for defendants on all tho issues.