JUDGE AND SOLICITOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1450, 27 May 1912, Page 4

JUDGE AND SOLICITOR.

SEVERE COMMENT ON LAND DEAL. (By Teicgra-Pll"-Press Association.) Auckland, May 25. Mr. Justice Edwards made tevere comment in ths Supreme Court case Allwooil v. SutcliJTe, in which a claim was made for alleged fraudulent misrepresentation in a loiid transaction. Edmund Jlahoney gavo evidence that he acted as solicitor for both parties. Ho stated that ha warned Allwood lie was buying a "pig in a poke," but admitted lie "did not tell him that the land he was acquiring liad been bought by Sutcliffc n few weeks beforo for <£100, though the consideration given by Allwood was equivalent to XSOO. His Honour said he lind no desire to say anything to hurt Mchoney's feelings, but it' was his absolute duly to have ■ warned plaintiff definitely in wriling that the contract wns an inequitable one. No mnn could under tlis circumstances act for both parties. Mr. Cotlor said an niter had been made for (he property for practically the consideration (lie plaintiff gave for it by a mnn who had grazed horses on it. but at this stage it was announced that the parlies had come to n settlement, and proceedings were discontinued.