WOMAN’S CLAIM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 June 1924, Page 7

WOMAN’S CLAIM

- I £SOOO DAMAGES. CRIMINAL ASSAULT ALLEGED. GISBORNE, June 27. ’lhe case of the teacher, Ivy Bell Carr against Lionel George Clare, merchant, for £SOOO damages for alleged criminal assault was continued to-day before Sir John Salmond and a common jury. Under examination plaintiff admitted that she went to the races the day after the alleged assault. She did not inform the police nor call in a doctor. She admited writing to a cook named Thomson at Frasertown. asking him for £4O, hinting that she was going for a divorce. She said before the alleged assault Thomson had hinted she should get a divorce. The defence alleged that tire ease had been brought because money could not be got out of Clare. In the box the defendant said that Mrs. C’avr was at his home on two occasions when his wile was away but he denied all her allegations of criminal assault. The case has not vet concluded. GISBORNE, June 28.

At the Supreme Court, in the case of Ivy Bel! Carr v. Lionel Clare, a claim for £SOOO damages for assault, the jury, after three hours’ deliberation, returned a nine to three verdict for plaintiff for £ISOO, and recommended that .the money be invested with the Public Trustee for the benefit of Mrs Carr. Sir John Salmond said that no order to that effect could be made. He entered judgment for £ISOO, with costs, according to scale.

Mr Barnard, for defendant, intimated that he intended moving for a new trial.