Connecticut western news., 1920-02-26
BENJAMIN-FARNUM CASE
 COMES TO AN END
Arguments Completed Tues
 day and Judge Receives .NN Decision

The Benjamin vs. Farnum case was resumed before Judge Hinman at Winsted Monday morning.
 Frank E. Soule of Hartford, a certified public accountant produced a very elaborate and detailed state ment of the affairs of the partner ship of R. T. Farnum 6 Go. He stated that not one balance appear ing on the cash book kept by Mir Farnum was correct; that 1t was very evident that the cash books were not written up on the day or at the time which they purported to be written up; that there were seven ty-seven errors or discrepancies in amounts of daily cash between the cash register books and the cash books and that the books were so erroneous and conflicting that he was not able to state an account based upon the books but that it became necessary for him to get statements from the two banks as to each individual check paid by the bank as the cancelled checks were not produced.
 His report showed that the total amount of cash received during the period of the partnership was $112,343.46.
 Amounts deposited in both banks $92,853.93.
 Amounts paid in exchange for checks or for cash $7,996.74.
 Exhibit c of his account showed that the amount of cash payments made for incidental purposes which were entered on the cash books un- der the head Merchandise increased from $27.31 paid out from Feb. 1, 1912 to Dec. 31, 1912 to S680.00 paid out or claimed to be paid out for merchandise from Jan. 1, 1917 to Dec. 31, 1917. The total amount appearing under this head as having been paid out as merchandise was $3,182.86.
 Exhibit D of the report contains the withdrawals of R. T. Farnum which shows this amount } to be $17,927.31.
 Exhibit K shows total of Ss09.79 which are bills claimed to have been paid for by cash for which no bills were found among the bills of the store.
 Exhibit F contains the amounts received by E. A. Benjamin and amounts to $4,800.O0.
 Exhibit G contains Benjamin's claims for amounts paid out by checks for Farnum's personal use other than these enumerated under the other Exhibits and amounts to $1,037.26.
 Exhibit H contains a summary of Ralph T. Farnum's personal account and contains in addition to the amount appearing under Exhibit D $17,927.31 the following admitted personal charges of R. T. Farnum. Coal bills, electric light bills for the house and various other family bills paid for by the partnership funds amount to $633.01 making total withdrawals of Farnum as $18,560.32.
 Salary he was entitled to for six years $8000. Amount received by Benjamin $4800. Amount with drawn by Farnum in excess to that withdrawn by Benjamin S4,778,82. There should be added to the follow ing amounts according to the claims of Benjamin:
 Exhibit B S806.37, Exhibit c $3,182.86, Exhibit E $809.79, Ex- hibit G $1,004.09. Total amount claimed to have been taken by Far mum in excess of that which he was entitled to $10,581.93.
 The arguments in the case were completed on Tuesday and Judge Hinman has taken the matter under consideration.
 The case took II days of actual court sessions and a certified &C., countant spent 8 days with two assistants to make a statement of condition. Another feature of the case was that Judge Hinman held court upon two holidays-January 1st and Washington's birthday.