PUBLIC TRUSTEE'S CLAIM.

PUBLIC TRUSTEE'S CLAIM. (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) Further evidence it, the case, in which the Public Trustee, administrator of the estate of Ah Chong deceased, claimed from Mark Maxton, commission agent, of Greytown North, the sum of £I18 17s. 5d., was heard before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The defendant Maxton carried out certain business matters for the deceased Chinaman, and it is alleged that when Ah Chong died, he (the defendant) received instructions to have the body embalmed and sent to China. Accordingly the body was dispatched, in the charge of a relative of the deceased. The total cost of embalming the body, and sending it to China, was £I88 17s. 5d., which amount was taken from the estate of the deceased. After the body was on its way to China, the Public. Trusteo stepped in, and alleged that the sum of £I88 17s. 5d. belonged to the estate, and that Maxton was bound to account for it to the Public Trustee. Hence the present action.
After hearing the evidence of the Chinese and the defendant Maxton, his Worship reserved decision. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 3