SHOULD SOLICITORS BE MONEYLENDERS?
■ ADJUDGE SATS'"NO. M (By . Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, December 6. The Supreme Court was occupied to-day with a case in which George Ellis claimed from Oli•phant and Battley, solicitors, ,£lB 9s. Bd„' balance of account, and asked the Court-to declare a. letter of indemnity void. : In'the course of. the .proceedings Judge Cooper said:—"The profession of '. money-lender is entirely incompatible with; the - profession of a solicitor of this Court) ' ' The Judges' of the Appeal Court have struck solicitors off the list for being bookmakers." To my mihd'it" is .much : more in-, compatible with" the practice of a solicitor of this Court:: ,t? be a money-lender, ■ and repre'sontations concerning the matter onght to be made- to the proper quarter." The case is proceeding. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 683, 7 December 1909, Page 8
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124SHOULD SOLICITORS BE MONEYLENDERS? Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 683, 7 December 1909, Page 8
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