LOTTERY PRIZE CASE
UNEXPECTED ENDING (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 16. There was an unexpected ending to-day to the Supreme Court hearing of a claim concerning a share in a £4OOO overseas lottery prize. Mr Justice Gresson, on the application of the defendant, Ada Ann Jones, and by consent of the plaintiff, Edward Alexander Foreman, gave judgment for the defendant without costs. The sudden ending to-day came aftdr a statement yesterday afternoon by counsel for the defendant (Mr W. P. Shorland) that the defence was a direct challenge to the greater part of the plaintiff’s evidence and that the defendant also adopted the legal defence under the Gaming Act that the partnership was for an illegal venture and that the Court should have nothing to do with it. When the Court resumed to-day, Mr F. C. Spratt, for the plaintiff, said the defendant had offered to accept judgment without costa.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25755, 17 March 1949, Page 3
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