i'kottim; at auctions.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 3075, 6 October 1899, Page 4

TROTTING AT AUCTIONS.

Tlio X'.rf/i /Ja/i.-:/i A'/rir>r/(uri<t of August Itilli, contains a sumiuavy ataleUKi) t. of n f'.H<' before the yhcriH'rf Court at Dunifri' 1 . 14 , in which G. liiimilton anil .) . Brown sui'd I'. Hyslop for £15 10 J , balance, of the price of some live .stock bought by him at H ! WMilton.'rf ilisj)!ci)ishini4 Hi!c 'lJm dcfi-n'lant'a purchaHfs totalled £a : .G 10.-5. of which lie paid £411, ;m<l ivjumhl to pay the b.ilancc on tlic Rronnd Unit Urov/n, who hnrt an intere.-t in hoihc of the cUt e Hokl, find to that extent was a Heller, h-id nr.de bids against th:> defendant ar;:l thUM rai-cd the piic he had to jv;y. The p\\\\u\,\iU fidrnittt d '.hat brown hid an inl-ict to the ( x'< ut if ,f;j 5 ; piT head f'-v Yj cattle, and of £10 per head on .seven o! i.i-v-' ; Ui 't is. in 1 h'i'l Hold them !o lliiiii'l-M at t! e.-r piicca and had not been pii ! for th"io, ThirtyHeveu of tin .se cattle were »o!d io Ilyivlop at £59F> 5 s, the reni:iini:i« /ivc bullocks being knocked down to l!,own at £12 each, and nwdd by him 'o llyslop at £12 5h e.icl), tlii^ 11 being enterei to Hyslop at ihaf, figure. If tint arrangejnent. had not been made H^jwii would have had to p-iy tt:e price the same as any other purchaser. Brown had no intereat in the sum f-ued for in thin action a* he h >.d beenpnidby fliniiltnii. It was admiticd that Hy^lop had paid £4U. Defendant stated tliat he did not know what Brown'n inteieet was ; plair.tifi'd had been asked Io state it, and refused, and it was not till aher the sale that Brown's interest was discovered. It was alleged that Hamilton vjas well aware that Brown intended to bid, and that he wan not a hona fil.p. bidder. By hiu bius the. priced were raised against the defendant to the sum at which they were knocked down, i.nd the bids for defendant worn thus k:v. n in essential error. I(e therefore in M llrit the sales were fraudulent, or t'.at he was entitled to treat tliem ;i.- ,-nii in <: ms<'quei:ce of the il!<'g-»l bidding il- ct!culat<'d that \ ufc /or Brown'n bidding he w.uld have Fccurcd t!:e cattle at £111, and that £'V> 10-1 i« a inodfiir.e estimate of t,h." dam iii<" .'sull'errd ny the. defendant from Brown's illegal hi ia. (Tlie Sherifl's ju lament had not bt-rn when the mail left.)