NOVEL CLAIMS
A LOST PEARL.
AND ALIENATED AFFECTIONS
(United Pthsb Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 12, 9.35 a.m.) Paris, March 11.
An insurance company Ims paid a novel claim. An actress broke her pearl necklace and her pet dog swallowed the largest pearl, which was recovered b.v means of an emetic, but it was diminished in size, presumably having been partly dissolved in the dog’s stomach. The company paid the difference between the present value and the value of the ;;om before it was swallowed.
£lOO.OOO DAMAGES AWARDED
(Received 12, 10.50 a.m.) New York, March 11
A jury awarded £lOO,OOO damages to Mrs Adelaide Gibbons, who sued Mrs Blanche Powell for alienating ner husband’s affections. Gibbons is a lawyer, while Mrs Powell is the widow of a Canadian lumberman, possessed of several million dollars.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 75, 12 March 1930, Page 7
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