A PECULIAR CASE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 23

A PECULIAR CASE.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Invercargill, September 1. A peculiar case was decided in the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. An old miner named- Roff sued his mate for £27 10s, moneys expended on his behalf. Roff’s story was that he was living with Girdler, who wanted to go to the Teetulpa diggings and lent either him or his wife money to pay his passage. Mrs Girdler asked what she was to do for food, and her husband said, “Oh, Tom will not see you want.” He advanced money to keep the house, and a further sum to bring Gir ler back, be having got stranded in Melbourne. Girdler did not teturn at that time, and his wife became insane and was removed to Seacliff. Old Roff was thus left with Girdler’s young family on his hands, the youngest baby seven months old. He faced the difficulty, put the baby on the bottle, aud generally acted in loco, parentis for seven weeks, during which his outlay was 30s. Girdler then returned and got. his wife out of the asylum, and now denied all

liability, pleading that the money he got from his wife to go to Adelaide waß his own earnings that he left her in credit with storekeepers, and did not authorise her to borrow from Roff. Plaintiff wished to call Mrs-Girdler, but defendant consented to judgment for £lO, which the Magistrate said the plaintiff had proved he had paid. .