of the circumstances of the Bankruptcy which had passed out of my memory.
his statement that I was in any respect discourteous to him
I deny that on that occasion. Whilst he, Mr. Wotton in support of and Int Stephens representing our Gibbons was with me, QUAMONA as advocate for and... came into my room. Int. Gibbons remained and during the hearing of the summons Mr Gibbons gives an account of what occurred.... Bangs began... an inaccurate account that I insulted him at that time.
As to this he is expressly contradicted both by Br Walton and Int. Crossop, whose statements of what occurred are written as if given in evidence in the witness box. To their statements I emphatically add that I did not then insult him, but that his tone and manner and behaviour were irregular and insulting to me. Unless Mr. Gibbons is profoundly ignorant, he must have known that for him to speak, his advocate being present, was irregular.
2nd Mr. Gibbons complains that I did not accept his statement as to the character of the houses. My first remark is that nothing turned on the character of the houses with which he had connection. Moreover, it is a clear rule that...
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