HARD ON THE FARMER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 8

HARD ON THE FARMER.

THE CSLLESPIE CASE. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, May 4. Judgment was given to-day in the case Scarborough Wrighe v. John London, in which plaintiff claimed £1375 damages. The case was of an involved nature, the chief feature being that plaintiff engaged Oliver Noel Gillespie, a solicitor, to act for him in leasing and subsequently buying land from defendant, and Gillespie by fraud represented to plaintiff that the mortgage over the land had been paid (iff and Gillespie subsequently became bankrupt. His Honor said there was no claim against the defendant. The latter’s solicitors had behaved in an irregular but 'honest way in accepting Gillespie’s assurances, rendering a gross fraud possible, but whatever claim defendant might have against them it gave plaintiff none, as they owed him no legal duty. Defendant himself was free from blame legally and morally. He described the case as a most lamentable one, and gave judgment for defendant with costs.