A Bush-felling Case
♦ ■ - (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, July 26. The case of Kellick v. Adams, an appeal from the Resident Magistrate's Court Wanganui, was argued to day in Banco, and Justice Bichmond reserved judgment. The case arose out of a contract for bush-felling. Adams agreed to cut bush for Kellick, and sued the latter lor work be had done, and damages for breach of contract. Kellick put in as a set-off a claim for goods supplied, and as a further defence produced an assignment of wages due by him to Adams to Caiman and Co., who supplied Adams with goods, and be gave an order on Kellick for payment of same. The Magistrate held that under "The Truck Act, 1881," Kellick was obliged to pay wages in money, and tbe defences were of no avail;
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 July 1893, Page 2
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135A Bush-felling Case Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 July 1893, Page 2
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