ALLEGED FRAUD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9107, 5 June 1908, Page 5

ALLEGED FRAUD.

AN INTERESTING ACTION. WELLINGTON, June 4. The Supreme Court was occupied, to-day, in hearing the civil case cf Leigh v. Strand. The plaintiff, John M. Leigh, a sheep-farmer, of Lower Hutt, according to the statement cf claim, instructed William T. Strand, timber merchant, of Lower Hutt, to purchase for him certain lands, comprising altogether 22 acres 1 rcod, 5 at a price rot to exceed £2oojper acre, and plaintiff agreed to pay defendant lor his services 25 per cent, of the profit plaintiff might make on a re-sale. The pui chase was arranged at £2OO per acre, and plaintiff paid £4,624 for the properties, and also paid defendant £630 for his services. Subsequently plaintiff discovered that defendant had got the properties from the vendors for £2,980, and appropriated the balance, £1,664, to his own use. He, therefore, claimed the £1,664, and the £63o*paid to defendant for his services—a total of £2,L94. The defence was that the defendant had bought the properties for himself, and re-sold them to tha plaintiff, and that the plaintiff understood this. Defendant said the payment of £630 was in respect of another transaction. A numuer of witnesses were examined. The case was not finished when the Court rose for the day.