HUSBAND OR WIFE?
QUESTION OF LIABILITY PAYMENT OF GOODS (From Our Own Correspondent. 1. HAMILTON, Wednesday. . A claim lor £175 »s 8d alleged to be .lue for goods supplied, was made by the Farmers* Co-operative Auctioneering: Co., Ltd. (Mr. Gray) against Mrs. K. Gust, boarding-house keeper, Matamata (Mr. N. Johnson) in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The question for decision was whether Mrs. Gust or her husband was liable for payment. The plaintiff’s manager at Matamata said that Gust ordered the goods and told him to charge them to Mrs. Gust. Cross-examined, witness said receipts were made out in error in the ruLmo of Mr. J. Gust. He said that Gust told him the mistake did not matter, as the Kaimai and Matamata accounts run by him and his wife were one.
Mrs. Gust said she had nothing to do with the Kaimai business owned by her husband. She did not know the Kaimai account was in her name. Decision was reserved.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 15
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161HUSBAND OR WIFE? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 15
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