INTERESTING CONOLUSION TO A CIVIL CASE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14843, 8 December 1913, Page 5

INTERESTING CONOLUSION TO A CIVIL CASE.

DOCUMENTS IMPOUNDED BY THE COURT. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WANGANTJI, December 7. A civil case heard at the Supreme Court on Friday and Saturday had an interesting conclusion. H. Nicholls, of Marton, sued J. C. Meyer, of Marton, for £790 on a promissory note given by Meyer for a carrying business, .flaintitt's evidence was to the effect that Meyer purchased the business for a man named Gibson. Plaintiff was crose-exaniinod at considerable length in connexion with letters supposed to have been written by Gibson giving Moyer - instructions to buy .Nicholls's place. The handwriting and illiterate spelling were sworn to by expert witnesses as being identical. « After a strong summing up, his Honour put the following issues to the jury:—"Did plaintiff write and send tho Gibson letters to defendant?" "Did defendant act in dealing with Dlaintiff on the assumption that these* letters were genuine, and was he misled by those letters?" The jury, after one hour and halfs retirement, returned replies of "Yes" to both issues. Judgment -was therefore given for defendant His Honour instructed the Registrar to put the documents into tho hands of the Crown solicitor, in order to see whether there were grounds for a prosecution against Nicholls for perjury, and if not for forging and attempting to obtain money by falso pretences. His Honour said he felt it was hjs duty to the country to do that.