A QUESTION OF INCHES
SWEDISH COURT CASE A lawsuit is at present pending between a son and his mother in the Gothenburg County, Sweden, which turns upon the point whether English measurements are valid in Sweden. Before the plaintiff’s father died, he sold his farm to his son, exbept for a forest, where the trees at breast height measured 8 inches or more. The plaintiff argues that Swedish inches are meant, while the defendant, his mother, claims them to be English. She has called in a number of witnesses who state that English inches are generally used in Sweden, owing to the great industrial influence of England in that part of the country about 200 years ago.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 11
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117A QUESTION OF INCHES Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 11
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