Judge finds against Spain’s King
NZPA-AP Nashville A judge has ordered King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain to pay SUS7OSO ($NZ13,536) to a Nashville taxi driver who tried without success to cash in a Spanish treasury bond dating from 1836.
“The King of Spain is no different from you and me. If he doesn’t pay, he gets sued,” said the taxi driver, W. T. Hardisson, who is already well known in Nashville legal circles for the original court cases he comes up with. Once he obtained l
SUS7OO ($1344) from Ayatollah Khomeiny of Iran because an Iranian passenger had paid his SUS2S ($4B) fare in foreign currency: Mr Hardisson made his latest complaint in April after the Spanish embassy refused - to discuss the
value of the old bond, a gift thought to be valued around SUS94O ($1805). Judge Bill Riggins, who wrote to the King and Queen asking them to appear in Court yesterday, granted Mr Hardisson SUS7OSO bn the grounds that this represented the
value of the bond, plus interest. “I'm going to Spain later this summer, and you can be sure I’ll show up at the front gate of the palace with a copy of the judgment, and ask for my money,” Mr Hardisson said.
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