IMPORTANT CASE.

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IMPORTANT CASE.

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jVI-v/U v/- i, tBLKOKAPH; g& / * AWifI;(IWI™D.;PBMS4SMJDIAXION.) j V - n ''' Wbllingtqn, October 16. . At the Supreme Court the case of Sperry v. : Dransbeld and others iwas heard. ' This was an action brought by •the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies m pursuande of the Building Society's >Act of 1866, to recover 'from ; Joe ' I)ransfieid,' John Richara Gill, a and ; ; John Edward Hayes, v pf Wellington, f sum^of £500 upon bond; Of fidel'ty ], given by defendants in !r©^^.tP Charles , i ..l^hjjte, ktei secretary of the Welling-r ton J ißniloing Society. s Counsel, mi r ppeningthe^ j?ase, said that the state* "menTof ■" claim alleged Ifiat^e j said? : ':(fflkh tfJWlte'iwSls Bt^ne^inis secrety the society was -properly constituted, , ijr that the bond .of fidelity given by de- ' fendarits m regard to Charles White, late gecretar^ pf, the i Wellington Build-' ing Society. J That the fcociety,* was,

properly c'dnstituted, that the bond of fEdelity was entered into by defendants on behalf of the said Charles liVbite, that the bond was for JBSOO, that the sai \ Charles White received sums amounting to £1866 which he did not account for, and tiiat h-j unlawfully appropriated the same to his pyn use. The case was adjourned* tin* tit to^morro^r for further argument.