SAFEDEPOSIT CASE
MOVE FOR NEW TRIAL (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 20. The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) yesterday reserved his decision on a motion seeking a new trial of what became known as the safedeposit case. The motion, heard in the Supreme Court at Wellington, concerned the case in which Dalma Mary Hrstich, a widow, was awarded £2005 in a claim against her dead husband’s two brothers, Dcminko and Jure Hrstich. Mrs Hrstich alleged that the brothers induced her to open her husband’s safe-deposit box the day after his death and took the money, which they kept. Dr. O. C. Mazengarb. Q.C., with him Mr Stewart Hardy, opposed a new trial, and Mr R. Stacey argued in support of it
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 15
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