Dispute With Francis Shortt
Francis Shortt was Berry's partner in the City of Edinburgh at the Cape of Good Hope. He arrived in New South Wales in 1822 claiming that the partnership with Berry had not been dissolved, and that the partnership with Wollstonecraft was invalid. He claimed Berry had never made an account to him of the profits of the cargo of the City of Edinburgh. Shortt had been declared insolvent at the Cape of Good Hope before coming to Sydney. His obituary stating that he had depended on friends for necessaries of life.
Shortt died in 1828 before the case was settled.
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