Turner, Assistant Judge.
The Nestle Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Ao. v B, Pitsgerald.
In this case the defendant appeared before the Court on a judgement summons in connexion with a claim by the plaintiffs for $549.49 goods sold and delivered. The defendant failed to appear the previous day and on Thursday was arrested and brought before the Court, His Lordship:—You were served with a summons to appear yeater-day morning: why did you not appeart—I was detained on business.
What sort of businesst—For my Did you send any message to the Court!—No.
Why not t—I did not know it was necessary to send a message.
Do you imagine it is the right thing ta ttreat a summons of the Court in that way!—It was the first time and I did not know.
With the result that you have been brought here under arrest Yes, And if it had not been for the y in which I sent the order yesterday, you would have been © li prison last night.
In answer to questions by Mr. Platt, for the plaintiffs, the defendant said he was working as a shipping clerk at a salary of $50 a month, to which he added $38 per month by giving lessons in English and Japanese. He sold the goods that he obtained from the plaintiffs, in whose employ he was, to Japanese retail shops and they still owed him money. The goods, for the money for which he was being sued, had not been obtained for his own consumption but had been delivered to the Japanese customers and entered in the firm's books under his name. He asserted that by
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