PERJURY.
At the Palmerston sitting ol the Supreme Court on Thursday before Justice Cooper, James Donald sued Charles Fitzgerald to recover ,£SOO alleged to have been obtained by misrepresentation ; also for the dissolution of the partnership agreement, and for £SO damages. Mr Gifford Moore, who appeared for plaintiff, said the defendant had enticed his client to put £SOO into a sawmill at Tokomaru by misrepresenting the financial state of the business, and a quantity of evidence was called to prove the misrepresentation. The defendant who depended solely on his own evidence, stated that the previous witnesses had perjured themselves to do him a wrong. His Honour gave judgment for plaintiff for £527, obtained by defendant by fraud and deceit, and declared the partnership agreement void on the ground of frauds, and also ordered the defendant to pay interest on the amount at 8 per cent, from the time the money was paid over to the date, and costs were allowed on the highest scale. Justice Cooper said that either one side or the other had committed deliberate perjury, and made an order for all exhibits to be impounded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 27 February 1909, Page 3
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188PERJURY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 27 February 1909, Page 3
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