The case was begun' in the U. $. Court on Wednesday morning before his Honour, Judge Purdy, in which Mr.
Glass is suing the Commercial Credit Information Bureau, for 1¥M.$2,500 with interest at seven per cent. alleged, by plainti@t to be due him on a six months promissory note igned by Inv. F. A. Bowen, secretary! (reassurer and general manager of the defendant company on Septeniber 27, last.
Mr, F. J. Schuhl appeared on behalf of the plaintiff and Mr. H. D. Rodger represented the defence, who in their.nawer to plaintiff's petition filed a counter-claim, Defendants allege in their answer that the promissory note was obtained by fraud and misrepresentation; that on August 8, 1927, plaintiff and his partner, Mr. L. R, James, entered into a contract with the defendant to print and supply 1,500 copies the Comacrib Directory of China, 1028 edition, and that on this con: tract defendants paid $2,750. On or about September 23,1927, plaintiff alleged to have admitted that he} would be unable to carry out the question, and offered to entertain machinery, type and type metal in cancellation of the debt of $2,750 cash, the promissory note for $2,600 mentioned in plaintif's complaint. In their counterclaim therefore, defendants ask that the provisional 5: on Septem. ber 28, 1927 be rescinded and cancelled; that the promissory note in the complaint ba declared null and void; that plaintiff be ordered to pay to defendant $2,750 and $4,271 and that plaintiff be ordered to take delivery of all the machinery and type in accordance with an attached list of inventory; that _plaintif's petition be dismissed with costs in the action and such further relief as the Court deemed just.
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