A COSTLY TRIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20901, 16 December 1929, Page 12

A COSTLY TRIAL

MILLIONAIRE CONCERNED. ECHO OF SHOCKING CASE. (United Press Association.) (By Bloctrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 16. (Received Dec. 15, at 5.5 p.m.) Afl the outcome of a fifteen days’ trial, one of the most costly of recent times, being estimated at £15,000, Hnyley Morriss, a Sussex millionaire who was the centre of a sensational trial early In December, 1927, lost his case, in which be sued a firm of solicitors who formerly acted for him for negligence and breach of duty in connection with certain divorce proceedings against his former wife. Mr Justice Horridge, summing up, declared that if Morriss was then n consummate liar, “ although it was quite true the man may commit crimes of a sexual character so horrible that they shock even people difficult to shock,” he might still be speaking the truth. The judge added that Morriss’s crimes were so appalling that the Lord Chief Justice, when Morriss appealed against his sentence in connection with girls, said it was the most appalling case of ihe kind within the recollection of the court. The jury was entitled to take this into account in thii case. Applause greeted the jury’s verdict.