DEBTS FOR JEWELS

Evening Star, Issue 23726, 6 November 1940, Page 8

DEBTS FOR JEWELS

BEAUTIFUL SOCIETY HOSTESS MUST PAY Transactions involving £62,000 were mentioned in the King’s Bench Division, London, during an action brought by a firm of jewellers to decide whether a beautiful society hostess, or her 80-yoar-old husband, should pay for a £5.500 necklace. Judgment was given for Cartier Limited, of Bond street, for £5,600 against Mrs Marguerite Vivienne Woolley-Hart, of Princes Gate. Her husband, Mr Arthur WoolleyHart, received judgment and costs against Cartier Limited, who, however, were allowed to add his costs to those received flora Mrs Wolley-Hart. Mr Wynn Weruinek, for Messrs Cartier, told the court that, though living together, Mr and Mrs Woolley-Hart did not quite see eye to eye in regard to certain expenditure. In July, 1906, Mrs Woolley-Hart inspected some jewellery at Cartier’s, including a £11.500 diamond ring, which her husband bought, and the diamond ami emerald necklace, the price of which the firm agreed to reduce from £0,500 to £5,500. Mrs Woolley-Hart said that her husband was providing the money, and it was arranged that £5,500 should he paid in four instalments. When by December, 1036, up payment had been made,

Cartier’s asked Mrs Woolley-Hart to settle the matter.

They also referred to another transaction over a diamond ring which she had bought at Monte Carlo for £45,000. Later the firm was referred to Mr Woolley-Hart for payment, but bis solicitors wrote stating that he had never agreed to pay for the necklace, and that it had been bought by his wife without his knowledge and approval. The»£4s,ooo transaction was eventually cleared up after an action bad been threatened by Cartier’s French house. Giving judgment. Mr Justice Hilbery pointed out that Mrs Woolley-Hart had said she could pay in instalments as and when she received the money from her husband. Nothing could be plainer than that she was herself making the purchase individually and not for her husband through her agency.