AN INTERESTING CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2673, 31 October 1882, Page 4

AN INTERESTING CASE.

fPBESS ASSOCIATION TELIQKAM.] DUNEDIiV, October 30. At the Resident Magistrate's Court today the follo wing action, in which a member of the now celebrated Goodison family yr t:, involved, and which was ohax*actex’ised by counsel as a swindle lx*om beginning to end, xvas beard: —Robox't Goouison v David 11 humid, claim ,£3O, value of a gx'ey mare sold by plaintiff to defendant. Mr Harvey appeared for the plaintiff', and Mr Denxx is ton, instructed by Mr Sinclair*, fox* the defendant. Robert Goodison stated—l met Edmond at Sirs Diamond’s Globe Hotel on tho 9th of this month. We commenced talking about horses, and I said a brother of mine had a grey mare for sale. Defendant said he would give £3O for her, and gave mo a cheque for that amount. The mare was taken up country by a man named Steven Warren for Edmonds, but Warren shortly afterwards brought her to town and asked me to take her back. To Mr Dennlston : Edmond had been drinking. X think he was capable of doing business. I had x'ecommendod Edmond to go to the Globe Hotcd to stay. It is kept by Mrs Diamond. That is not my usual house of call. X generally go to the Provincial. X saw him at tho Globe in the evening, and be said he wanted to buy some more bouses. I said I would help hixu to buy eoaxe if he paid me commission. He agreed to this, and X at once bought Rattler. Rattler belonged to my brother Henry, who was in the room at the time. I don’t know exactly what took place. Wo had a long conversation, and Edmonds finally bought him for £145. I described him as a good horse, and told him that Rattler was wortlx £l5O. I was acting as his paid agent at tho time, and yet advised him that the horse was Ty-orth £l5O. Mr Harvey

objected to the Hue of examination. Mr v Dour Is ton said that he intended to show that this affair was a piece of clear deliberate swindling. His Worship allowed tlxe questions to be put. Witness continued—l had a little while before this sold Rattler and Little John together to my brother Henry for £75. I mayffxave sworn in a> previous case in this Court that £75 was tlxe full value of the txx*o horses, Edmond paid the £145 to my brother by cheque. Edmond looked in about the same state as in the morning. He paid me £7 19s, as Commission, by cheque. I don’t knoxv who drew the cheque for £145. I can’t say if I drew it myself. I think I left Edmond about as right as when I met him at the hotel. I think he was sober. I next bought some horses from one Alexander and" sold them to Edmond. Alexander

came to the hotel while we were there. Ho knew wo were there. I fixed the prices for Edmond to pay for the horses, and also for a dray wldch ho bought from Alexander. On the Sunday following I saw Edmond at the hotel, and ho vras perfectly sober. I got a commission from'Edmond for the horses bought from Alexander. I do not know that Mrs Diamond used to lock Edmond up so as to keep him from me. The gray mare sold to Edmond was originally bought by my brother for £35, but she was in foal to

King Phillip, and if the foal was dropped alive she would be worth .£3OO. She is about 14 years old. I told Edmond when he bought her that he could stop his cheque if he did not like her. AU the time I was doing business with Edmond he was sober enough to walk along the street. I sold Edmond another horse belonging to one Falconer for .£IOO. Mrs Diamond, of the Globe Hotel, said Edmond had been drinking, hut she never locked him up out of Goodison’s way. .Edmond, who is a farmer at the Taiori, gave evidence that he had a recollection of being ’at the hotel, but did not remember anything about buying horses. He did *iot know he had. bought the grey mare till he had recovered from the drink. The E.M. reserved judgment.