A KNOTTY POINT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 September 1907, Page 2

A KNOTTY POINT.

To the Editor. Sir, Will you kindly publish this question, in the hope that some of your readers may answer it to decide a wag.ir. A young man who was being coached by a solicitor for the legal profession made the following agreement:—Onehalf the tuition fees were to be paid on the completion of the course, and the balance when the, pupil won his first ease. The young man, having been le r t a legacy, was reluctant to begin practice, so his teacher summoned him. The young man defended himself. The plaintill' argued that the defendant must pay in any ease, because if judgment went for plaintiff he would have to pay, and if for defendant he must pay, by the terms of his agreement, he having won his first case. The defendant argued that if he gained the case lie was freed from liability, and if he lost it ho was freed by. the terms of his agreement. The question is, who won ?—I am, etc., MOANA.

"No. 1, 1857," writes:~"Re incidents in Taranaki wars, about which I wrote, the letter appearing in your issue of 18th should have read: 'I believe the Gsth lost two men that day and some wounded'; not seven men."