AN UNUSUAL CASE.
RESERVED JUDGMENT DELIVERED! (PEESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGBAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 20. The sequel to one of the most extraordinary cases ever heard in Court, and the first of the kind in Now Zealand, was reached in the Stipreme Court to-day, when the reserved decision of Mr Justice Edwards was read in the case of Clara Berridge v. the Public Trustee, in the estate of Benjamin Enroth. This case, which was heard in February, involved a claim for an order, setting aside the transfer, of land made by the plaintiff to Enroth, in the .belief that she was his lawful wife. Enroth's real name was Thome. Ho had a wife living when he married the plaintiff. The defence claimed an allowance for permanent improvements made on tlie land by Enroth. The judgment gives the land back to the plaintiff, and grants no allowance for improvements, on the grounds that Enroth was cognisant of fraud. [■• orders payment to the plaintiff of the moneys fraudulently received by Enroth. Itefcails of the decree are to bo settled iv Chambers between counsel.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14947, 21 April 1914, Page 5
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179AN UNUSUAL CASE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14947, 21 April 1914, Page 5
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