A WANGANUI CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 5

A WANGANUI CASE.

HAS .AN INTERESTING CONCLUSION.

(By Teleordvh—Prui Association.) A civil case heard at the Supreme' Court on Friday and Saturday had an interesting conclusion. J. H. Nicholls, of Marton, sued J. C. Meyer, of Mai-ton, for £790 on a promissory note given by Meyer for a carrying business. Plaintiff's evidence wag to the effect, that j Meyer purchased a business for a man named Gibson. Plaintiff was cross-examined at considerable length in connection with letters supposed to have been written by Gibson, giving Meyers instructions to buy Nicholls' place. The handwriting ami illiterate" spelling wore sworn to by expert witness as being identical. 'After a strong slimming up, His Honor put the following issue to the jury: Did .the plaintiff write and send Gibson's letters to the defendant? Did defendant act in dealing with the plaintiff on the assumption that these letters were genuine, and was he misled by those letters? The jury, after an hour and a-half's retirement, replied "Yes" to both issues. Judgment was therefore given to the defendant. His Honor instructed the Registrar to put the document into the, hands of the Crown Solicitor. There were, he said, grounds for prosecution against Nicholls for perjury, if not for forgery and attempting to obtain money by false pretences. His Honor said he felt it was his duty to the country to do that.