WESTPORT DISTRICT COURT.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 268, 10 June 1868, Page 2

WESTPORT DISTRICT COURT.

Tuesday, June 9. (Before His Honor Judge Clarke). LEECH V. JOLLIEEE. This was an action to recover the sum of £lB4 Bs, alleged to be due for wages and for cash lent. Mr Tyler appeared for the plaintiff. Mr "W. Pitt for the defendant. The action in one form or other had been tried some five times previous to the present suit, with varied success, but no final conclusion had ever been come to. It appears that some time ago plaintiff and defendant entered into some business arrangement in reference to opening a public house at Charleston. Plaintiff maintained that he was merely a servant in the matter, and that the cash he advanced was by way of loan, and not as a contribution to any partnership. Defendant, on the other hand, asserted that plaintiff and he were in partnership in the speculation, which proved a disastrous one, and the whole issue lay on this. As might be imagined the evidence on cither side was most contradictory, and the case lasted from eleven in the morning till nearly five in the evening. Both of the legal gentlemen engaged exerted themselves to the utmost for their respective clients, but the fates proved adverse to the defendant. In giving judgment his Honor said that during the whole course of his experience this was one of the most unsatisfactory cases he had met with, the evidence on either side being so point blank contradictory. He would

be sorry to impute perjury to wit- I nesscs, though some of the evidence seemed to bear that complexion, but he would rather account for some things that had been sworn to by a defective memory on the part of those giving evidence. Ho was, however, fully satisfied that he would be doing justico by giving a verdict for the plaintiff for £93 10s., with costs.

After some further desultory remarks the Court adjourned till this morning, when the insolvency cases will be proceeded with.