A BANKRUPT'S BROTHER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 31 October 1910, Page 5

A BANKRUPT'S BROTHER

KNOWS NOTHING OF HIS WHEREABOUTS. By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Wellington, Saturday. The first action of the kind heard in Wellington came before his Honor the Chief Justioe in Chambers to-day, when application was made under section 38 of the Bankruptcy Act, which provides that before a summons for adjudication is disposed of the Court may summon before it and examine any person who is stated by affidavit to be capable of giving information concerning any act of bankruptcy alleged to have been committed by a debtor. Jack Vinegard, otherwise known as Vinegrad, also as Isaac Vingrad or Vinegard, who carried on business as a mercer in Manners-street, is missing, and his brother Abraham Vinegard was summoned to give evidence as to his knowledge of the whereabouts of his brother and as to his knowledge of the act of bankruptcy alleged in the petition, "that with intent to defraud and delay his creditors, Jack Vinegrad departed from his dwelling-house and otherwise absented himself within the last three months."

Abraham Vinegard, in examination, denied all knowledge of the whereabouts of his brother, who had informed him on September 20 last that ho intended going to Rotorua. It was shown to the Court that Jack Vinegard owed £BOO on a business which his "brother Abraham had purchased from him for £2OO. The summons for adjudication comes on for hearing on Tuesday next.