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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1924, Page 3

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At the* Magistrate.*'* Court, Christchinch, vesteniay a roservoil jtiilj'jni'Ul was given in the ease iu whieli Jones llros. Ltd., ryeh* agents of Christ-I church, claimed from John Shannon oi Hokitika, the sum of USD Is I<l lor arrears o f hire alleged to he due under nn agreement to hail made between the pin i lit ill* company and the ileleiulant in resiiecl ot a i larley-Davidsiui motor cycle. In this ease important (piestions of law were raised on behalf of defendant as to whether a hire purchase agreement was binding, and t Hither as to whether such an agreement not having been executed upon tindate mentioned in the agreement, was nudum pactum. Il was alleged on behalf of defendant that the agreement was not binding, and the case has an important hearing upon many so-called hire purchase agreement.'* now in vogue in the Dominion. Kvideuu? was given in Christchurch, in Hokitika, and ill Wellington, with a result that the Magistrate has upheld the points raised I,y the defendant for whom judgment has been given with costs. All I.ascetics, of Weston. Ward and 1 .nacelles. appeared for the plaint ill. and Mr Paterson, instructed by Park and Murdoch, solicitors. Hokitika, .appeared for the defendant at the hearing iu Christchurch. The costs in the case amount to a considerable sum.