TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 November 1928, Page 6

TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

N DISPUTE OVER PAYMENT. INTERESTING CASE. ;By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Herbert William Acton Adams, of Tipapa, North Canterbury, who .inherited £l-10,000 cash under the will of his late father, sued the executors of the estate in the Supreme Court to-day for £llOO. lil JOlll plaintiff's father, William Acton Adams, who resided in England, sent instructions for plaintiff, his wife daughter and son to visit him.

Mr C. C. ~M. Ollivier, attorney in New Zealand for William Acton Adams, provided for plaintiff a sum of £2IOO out of the moneys belonging to William Acton Adams as a reasonable sum to defray the expenses of the voyage. Plaintiff and his family were affectionately received by William Acton Adams, who instructed his accountants in New Zealand to allow plaintiff only £IOOO on account of expenses. Tln‘ trustees debited plaintiff with the sum of £2looj but. credited him with £IOOO, Tne expenses exceeded £2IOO and plaintiff had to appoint a manager on the Tipapa property, owned by SVHllttin Acton Adams, A sum of £llOO therefore, was claimed. The defence was that the sum of £2IOO was loaned or provided by Ollivier, who had no authority to make a gife to plaintiff at the time. Plaintiff knew that the sum was not a gift by Ollivier, on behalf of W illinm Acton Adams, and knew that lie was liable to repay the sum to V illinm Acton Adams, as William Acton Adams had instructed his accountants to credit plaintiff with the sum of £IOOO. Plaintiff was discharged from his liability to repay that sum but his liability to repay the sum of £llOO remained.

Judgment was reserved