Owner of Factory for $500 Alleged Loaned on June 1
Mr. Rudolf Beer, German-Jewish certified master of sausage-making and butchery, yesterday brought suit against Mr. Jack Weidman, former Public Works employee and present owner of the European Sausage Factory and Butchery at 129-131 Avenue ig, in H.M, Supreme Court before t Judge P. Grant Jones, the sum of $500 which he alleged to have loaned the defendant on June 1. Neither plaintiff nor defendant were represented by counsel.
Speaking through an interpreter, Mr. Beer declared that he had loaned Mr. Weidman, with whom he was working at the time, the sum of $500 on June 1 to enable the defendant to pay off some bills he had to meet. He said that he was to get the money back when the customers of the butchery had paid their accounts at the end of the month. Mr. Ludwig Schwarcz, friend of the plaintiff testified that he had drawn the money from the plaintiffs account in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and had paid $500 to the defendant.
Conducting his own defence, Mr. Weidman stated that he had originally bought the sausage factory with the understanding that Mr. Beer would install some of his own machinery in the place and that the two would then enter into partnership. The $500 was used to enlarge ihe factory to accommodate the plaintiffs machinery, but when he had the enlargement completed the plaintiff refused to install the promised machinery. Mr. Weidman said that he had first met Mr, Beer by answering an advertisement seeking someone with capital to enter into the sausage making business. As Mr, Weidman had a little money to invest he contacted the plaintiff and they reached a verbal agreement whereby the defendant was to put in the capital and Mr. Beer the machinery.
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