“ENTICED HUSBAND”

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 324, 22 October 1940, Page 3

“ENTICED HUSBAND”

£II,OOO BILL IN CASE PARENTS PAY At tlicir new address in America, Mr. and Mrs. Renfrew Porter received a cable from London saying: “Appeal dismissed.” For them the two words meant the end of the “husband enticement” case—and a bill for about £II,OOO.

They are American citizens and went to America from Mayfair. Their son, Lieutenant Porter —the husband in the case —is in the army.

Their daughter-in-law,. Mrs. Valerie Porter, who had alleged that they had enticed Lieutenant Porter away from her, sat in London s Court of Appeal and smiled when she was told that the appeal against tier had failed.

In the King’s Bench Division, Mr. Justice Atkirfson and a< jury awarded Mrs. Valerie Porter £3,500 damages against her “in-laws.”

She was paid £SOO at that time, and now that the appeal of her “inlaws” has failed she will be paid the remaining £3OOO, which has been “in the custody of the High Court.” Mr. and Mrs. Renfrew Porter will also have to pay their daught-er-in-law’s legal costs of the eightday trial and. three-day appeal, which will make a total of about £II,OOO. - Mrs. Valerie Porter wore a black dress with white beads in court, and a new hat style. She wore a different hat on most of her 11 days at the courts.