FRIENDS AT LAW.
' » r t .A SOCIETY" CASE. (tmiTBDV PBKSB ASSOCIATION—Hi H.ZCTXIO tolkorajh—corroioni.) LONDON,* March 29. Society is .interested in a peculiar. Court case. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill sued the Countess of Mayo, one of her best, friends, 'for four guineas' ; for" two tickets-for a hospital ball last June. , The action was undefended, and an order was made for payment within 14 days. ' '• ': "1 did it as "a warning," said Lady Spencer Churchill. VThis sort of thing is,still going on. in the neighbourhood.'' - The Countess of Mayo said: "' "Lady Spencer Churchill and myself are great friends: The money relates to two tickets I sold for a ball. Payment,, was overlooked, through sheer carelessness and pressure of public duties." -
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 1 April 1930, Page 2
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