PAYMENT FOR FURS.
A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT. A remarkable story was told in Court in Melbourne recently, when Mass P. Ash, furrier, of Melbourne, sued Charles Proffit, furniture dealer, of South Melbourne, lor £55 10s, the price of a fur coat and stole macle for his daughter, who was joined as a defendant, though she had not been served with the Court papers. Counsel for the defence explained that Miss Proffit could not attend the Court as she was ill in consequence of the breaking off of her engagement with a roan whom she was to have married. It was'stated that the furs were obtained in view of the wedding, and were to be paid for by the fiance, who represented himself as a man of great wealth, and posed as a, brigadier-general. It turned out, however, that he was not what be represented, and this resulted in the engagement being broken off and the furs remaining unpaid for. After the Judge decided that, there was no case for Proffit to answer a settlement was reached between the parties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19140, 5 October 1925, Page 11
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