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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

The Editor New Zealand Times

The Editor New Zealand Times.

Sir,—Now some years since when writing on another subject I told your readers I had a case—my only case—in Her Majesty's Supreme Court that had then continued some years. The case was a most simple one which any two ordinary men could have settled in a few minutes. A property was sold which had previously been granted to twelve individuals. I myself and another were trustees for one share. The other page 7 eleven shareholders had sold the land and received some hundreds on account, which sale fell through. They had drawn some further hundreds from the auctioneer, and had also run up what is known as a lawyer's bill with one Walter (since Sir Walter) Buller. After the sale the money by arrangement was paid into the hands of said Walter Buller and others. When they came to the division of the proceeds, instead of giving to me and my co-trustee our share in full they first deducted the moneys the other eleven shareholders had derived from their sale of the property, the moneys they had received from the auctioneer; also the amount of the said Walter Buller's long bill, with all of which we, the trustees of the twelfth share, had had nothing whatever to do. They gave us only a twelfth share of the residue. I asked for a refund of those moneys so wrongfully deducted from our share. This was denied to us. I then placed the matter in the hands of a famous barrister and solicitor, one W. T. L. Travers. After waiting eleven long and weary years the case was brought to a conclusion. The result: