BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 4

BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.

A LAND DEAL TRAX'KApfjffg By Telr^'rapn—l'reis Association. i Wellington, Last Night. • Tiie Supremo Court wasi ocouj>i«d for three days in hearing a cue in whWI ■ liiimaay McUougali, of VatKato, eued 1 Jolin \V. Chapman, of Wellington fori £IOOO (iiwiugcß for losses due to ailegedj a'a to the nature <3* a farm, sold by defendant to Plaintiff alleged that the farm, aKfflSj I'umpriml 1830 acres, wu almost wholhH an irrer.uimadjle swamp, wuile thiediteJ feiHknit had represented it to bo rip'nWm or development to a standard equaffjl tfyat of the neighbouring famwk lfl| the defence, counsel suwmttfld simply a case of a man having inoosß siderately and incautiously entered into ? a bad bargain, and then seeking to gst? it set aside. , A Considerable evidence was heart, nmfcj the jury, after two hours.' retirement? announced that owing to the oonfUcilii§H nature of the evidence, it had given defendant the benefit of fchte doubt all points. 'T'rW]