THE LEIGH-STRAND CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 5

THE LEIGH-STRAND CASE.

WELLINGTON, June 10. The hearing of the case of John Motley Leigh v. William Thomas Strand, which had been commenced last Thursday, was concluded this evening at the Supreme Court. The plaintiff is a settler at the Lower Hutt, and the defendant a timber merchant carrying on business in the same district. Plaintiff's claim was for £2.294, which he alleged had been wrongfully obtained from him by the defendant. Mr C. P. Bkerret, K.C., and with him Mr 0. 3cere, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., and with him Mr C. H. Treaawell, for the defendant. , The evidence had been closed on the previous day. and counsel proceeded to address the jury. His Honor, in summing up, pointed out that the main issue before the jury was whether the defendant made the purchase of the property in question as the agent for the plaintiff, or whether he had made the purchase on his His Honor remarked that the fact of a man purchasing land one day and selling it at a profit of 30 or 40 per cent, the following day was not so unusual an occurrence that it could create any surprise in the minds of anyone. His Honor put only one issue to the jury—viz. "Did the defendant, when he purchased the property in question from the several vendors, make the purchase on his own account or as agent for the plaintiff."

The jury answered that the defendant acted as agent only.