ABOUT A HORSE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 155, 19 December 1913, Page 2

ABOUT A HORSE.

Dispute Between Partners.

A Pukekohe Case.

A complicated case cams before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.ua., at the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, when Henry and t 1 rederick Goldswcrtby (Mr Tunks) claimed from Ronald Johnson, of Auckland (Mr Haddow), possession of a mare which plaintiffs alleged belonged to them.

The evidence showed that the defendant had very little lo do with the case, being merely nominal defendant. The plaintiffs, it was stated, had been partners in a business at Pukekohe from April, 1912, till November, 1912, and had bought the ma:e in dispute, which then became their joint property. Subsequently Henry Goldsworthv left Pukekohe, but retained his interest in the business plant, and incidentally in the mare. Frederick Goldsworthy then joined William Mills in another business at Pukekohe. On returning from a journey to Auckland in March last, he found that the horse was missing. The plaintifs, some months afterwards, saw the horse in a cart in Auckland, driven by Johnson, who refused to give it up, stating that he had bought it from a man, who, it was subsequently discovered, had in is turn purchased the animal from Mills. Mills, in the course of his evidence, said that he had understood that the horse was the property of Frederick Goldsworthy. The latter owed him some £43, and witness agreed to take the horse from him as part payment to the extent of £32. This was done, and witness later sold the horse to a man named Gee for £32.

Frederick Uoldsworthy gave this story an emphatic denial, which caused His Worship to remark that one or the other of tbi men was committing deliberate perjury. Further hearing of the case was eventually adjuurned until January 13th.