LITIGATION AS A HOBBY
A TROUBLESOME WOMAN. “A second Mrs Cathcart,” the famous litigant, was Judge Cluer’s description of a woman in the Shoreditch County Court recently. The judge hod before him a possession, summons, in which Mr Jack Joseph, Stoke Newington, was the plaintiff, and Mrs Eleanor Barnes tho defendant. The case revealed an astonishing course of litigation, which had lasted 6ince 1920. Mr Joseph said that Mrs Bamcs had persisted in making him obtain his rent by coming to court, and gave a long history of tho litigation against her; beginning in December, 1920, and continuing in February, . May, September, 19511, September, 1922, March, July, and November, .1923, and March, 1924. Judge Clucr made a final order for Mrs Barnes to go in four weeks, saying that a landlord should r.ot be 4 —--n.ua «tu.ir her.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11933, 13 September 1924, Page 9
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