A CHALLENGED GIFT
MAGISTRATE RESERVES DECISION,
The case in which the Public Trustee claimed £200 from Charles Henry Goodman was concluded in the Magistrate's. Court yesterday afternoon. Goodman alleged "that the money was given to him as a present by a man named Thompson, who was-later sent to a mental hospital, but the Public Trustee, on behalf of Thompson, is questioning the validity of the gift. Mr. I.\ S. K. Macassey appeared for the Public Trustee, and Mr. W. E. Leicester for Goodman. In addition, the police made an application for tne determination of ownership of £22, and a gold watch,. seized by Detective M'Lennon when he was making inquiries. Mrs. M'Gowan, proprietress of "Clinton House," where Thompson stayed, said that the evening before Thompson went to Porirua he told her he would pay her £]U for board, and that he intended to give Goodman a present. Witness considered that Thompson then knew what he was doing about money matters. She did lint consider him insane at all. Thompson told witness that if Goodman«pnid for the repairing of the watch, which .had been left at the jeweller's, he could keep After hearing further evidence, the Magistrate (Mr. E. P'.ge) reserved his decision.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 2
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202A CHALLENGED GIFT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 2
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