REMARKABLE CASE,

Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 29

REMARKABLE CASE,

SYDNEY, September 21

A remarkable case came before the Equity Court to-day, Liicy Hine seeking to have s&t aside a deed of transfer of a valuable property to H. T. Henderson affil his wife, alleging that it was obtained by means of threats of violence. The plaintiff's statement set out that Mrs Henderson, on the ground of plaintiff's misconduct with Henderson, had followed her about and publicly abused her. Mrs Henderson entered her home several times, and assaulted and threatened to kill her, with the result that she •was terrified into executing the transfer. Plaintiff admitted living with Henderson, though not as his wife. A number of letters were put in, indicating that the planitiff had offered inducements to Henderson to leave his wife.

Henderson, in the course of his evidence, admitted living with the plaintiff, and gave details of a meeting between himself and his wife ana! the plaintiff whereat Mrs Henderson declared tliat she would make plaintiff pay dearly for the loan of her husband. She 'demanded a house from the plaintiff, and the result of this meeting was that tie transfer was made. His wife subsequently told him that she could manage better without him, as she had frightened a house out of the plaintiff.

The defence is a denial of threats of violence, and contends that the transfer was made of the plaintiff's free will.