A QUEER JUMBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 20, 17 February 1909, Page 3

A QUEER JUMBLE.

'tpuoj-Trs ]N pics AND POULTRY 1 'A .|iieer business tangle was spread •hefore Air. 11. S. Fitzhcrbert. S.U.. at ■til.' Courthouse yesterday afternoon. 'Three l.Kii had decided to annex some 'of the inillio';is< Unit it is claimed can 11) i! tiia.li> from the raising of pigs anil poultry. Whether they went tin: right 'way about the business was not the ! duty of the Court to declare. The Jlagistratc had quite enough to <1» t" dis'.(•irvorh thenrassof conflicting and Inns ! ■drawn evidence before him whether or I'not the plaintiff, one pf the partners, I'was entitled to recover from the other? of the trailing triumvirate the sum he 'claimed. The facts, coupled with the ■demeanour of tile witnesses and the taparent distrust by one side of all and Sundry, connected -.villi the Court, and the ease, causing Uie, utmost difficulty fci dragging the details from the deterininedily opposite deponents in the box, , ■bore the Giibertian touch. The liti--I'ants were all comparatively young. William Hcappcy (Hie plaintilf) was a laborer, and John Taylor and Francis Josephs (the defendants) hoteliers. De.voiv street east. Taylor had a billiard .room hi his house, anil Hcappey fofmer(v rented this, and boarded with Taylor At the conclusion of his term he lowed his landlord 30s. The defendant Iliad just leased a. house and ten acres on itlie Hospital road, and they stocked the ■place with pigs and ipoultry, which they ■.hoped to fatten on the refuse from the ■butchery, offal »•>'•■■ the abattoirs, and tin, "wash" t'ron. the various lodgingSiollses. holets. cU-., i'ii tlie borough. ■But it was necessary to have a manager ■for the estate, and they put the lcin.ptijng proposition before the now adimt•.lcdlv penniless Hcappey. According to .'the'plaintiff he .jumped, al the nfler .o 1 ■■■„„ on shares.-' Hcappey to take half •the profits and the other Uvo sharing tlu- other half. Tin- plaintiff, however, stated that he had arranged to receive !iwajres hi addition to his share o. tins profits. He took up his residence on >llie farm, and employed u boy at 4s a week, this lad undertaking that part. ..! ■his duties which comprised the collccL•iti" of pig-slush from the houses in the ■lowu. The plaintiff drew money trom 'r«i.|-Jur. and occasionally the hitter look him out same groceries. Heappev -batched '' )" Court Taylor maratamed lhat the work done by lleappey was ..carcclv worth paying for. and fliat he himself could have done if in a couple „f |„«irs a day; tlrfit the cash lie gave nv.mwv was a seiiii-eharitahle procecd■in"- and that the plaintilf was not en- ; .iU.MI to payment of wage* until some •■ lira ,. in December, when Hie plaintiff, Mrlng .1" .prospect of acquiring great f.k-hes from the. profits iifode on his •,'i-atliered and bristly charges, was at lis own re.picst. pat on a wages basis ,f 0-,=, a. week, "and find himsell.' On Mm'iii' this ami a couple of hours more \ f it the storv liei-pming more and .„,„•,.'unfalhomablo as fuels, ami fan,j,„ iind conversalions ninl inferences . ~,',. heaped one upon the other, the . hiirtiir cki'.nicd ■from Hie defendants m-'-M, k's .«1, which comprised his ',."r, r ,. s his "share." and the vain* of a "('"ijr'ln rue-"-- for which he should have .|„cn, paid. The whole of the business ' s „.nied to have, beeni arrangctl and con■ducted by word of mouth, a-.id Mr. I'itz/hcrl.crl ioiind it impossible to sift the nuttier out right away, .ludguient will i be given on Friday morning.