SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 141, 5 June 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

PECULIAR LAND TRANSACTION. Per Press Association. , Wellington, Last Night. I The Supreme Court was occupied today iti hearing the civil ease, Leigh v. Strand. The plaintiff, John M. Leigii, shoepfai'mcr, of Lower Hutt, according to the statement of claimant, instructed William A. .Strand, timber merchant, of Lower Hutt, to purchase for him certain lands, comprising altogether 22 acres 1 rood, 5 perches, at ft price not to exceed i£2oo per acre, and plaintiff agreed to pay defendant for his services 25 per cent, of the profit plaintiff might make on a re-sale. The purchase was arranged tit £2OO per acre and plaintiff paid £.4(>24 for the properties and also paid defendant £O3O for his services. Subsequently plaintiff discovered that defendant had got the properties from the vendors for £2U(iO, and, he alleged, appropriated the balance £IOO4 to his own use. He therefore claimed the £IOO4 and the £O3O paid to defendant for his services—a total of £2204. The defence was that the defendant had bought the properties for himself and re-sold them to the plaintiff and that the plaintiff understood this. Defendant said the payment of £O3O was in respect of another transaction. A number of witnesses were examined. The case was not finished when the Court rose for the day.