FURS FOR RENT
“LAW TAKEN INTO OWN HANDS.’
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept, 10.
Giving judgment in the case in which. A.. O'Connor and his wife, trading 'as the' Alaska Fur Company, preceded against Mrs. L. El. Wilson, Air. E. Pngo. S.M., said the presumption being against the wrongdoer, he had: to give judgment for £4O in respect of skins said to bo missing. People had no- right to take the law into their own hands, and to mark the court’s, disapproval he allowed £5 damages for wrongful entry. For wrongful detention of a- coat and a- fur from the shop he allowed £l4 5s and for assault on Airs. O’Connor £3 — a total of £62 5s —with an order f°r the return of the coat and fur. On the, counter-claim for rent and damages in regard to, the state O’Connor h’d left the premises, Mrs. Wilson was awarded £49 15s.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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