WOMAN’S FRAUD
OVER £12,000 TO BE REPAID. i . • Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 23. Mr. Justice Shearman, summing up in the Waterhouse case, said that if the payments of Lady Wilson Barker were made properly and. innocently, why had not, Lady Wilson Barker explained the transactions in evidence?, The July decided that Lady Wilson Barker obtained twenty-three payments from the late Mr. Waterhouse : by means of fraudulent representations, but held, there was no conspiracy with Sheldon.
Dlr. Justice Shearman entered judgment against the Wilson Barkers for £12.075. He pointed out that, though he thought the law ought to be altered, a husband was still responsible for his wife’s torts. Sheldon was dismissed from the suit with costs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5
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