APPEAL COURT.
«• (P»b Pbbss Assoot«-io:M WELLINGTON, October 27. The Appeal Court gave judgment for the defendant in the case of Harris v. Aldons, both in the original action and pn the counter claim. The ground upon which the decision in both action aud counter claim turned was that the Court considered : that there was evidence which justified the jury in finding that there was an illegal agreement \between plaintiff and Myers ; that if Myers obtained and handed oyer the promissory note sued on, plaintiff would not prosecute him for forgery. The Court was of opinion this was an objection which was open to defendant to take as an accommodation endorser, and that was a good defence to the action on the note, and also entitled defendant to recover on counter claim a sum of £200 which she had previously paid on the note in ignorance of the facts. Costs according to scale were allowed defendant in the original action, twelve guineas on counter claim, and twenty guineas on argument in the Court of Appeal,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 28 October 1899, Page 2
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