A PECULIAR CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1265, 28 May 1884, Page 3

A PECULIAR CASE.

[by telegraph. J Dunedin, To day. The case of Mrs Agnes Campbell versus William Kennedy, of New York, Basil Sievweight, of Dunedin, Charles Reid and two others being nominal defendants, will shortly be before the Courts. It turns on the sale of the Arcade property last year, after Daniel Campbell had left the colony. The plaintiff alleges she signed a deed of sale under Mr Siev wright's advice, not knowing he was acting for Kennedy; that she never received any part of the L 12,000 alleged to have been paid as purchase money ; that the deed was a fictitious mortgage executed by Mr Sievwright’a advice ; that she sold the lands mentioned by Mr Reid on Sievwiight's advice in order to protect the same from her husband’s creditors, and did so on the advice that it was not a bond fide sale, but that whenever required Kennedy would re-transfer the land for a nominal consideration, but he had since refused to do so. Two commissions have been issued for taking evidence in America, whither Mr Danniston has gone it. the plaintiff’s interests.