LIABILITY REPUDIATED.
DRAPERS' ATTEMPT TG RECOVER
COMPLICATED CASE
(For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
Liability was repudiated in an unusual manner when a claim was made in the Magistrate's Court by Kirkcaldie and Staines, Ltd., against Randolph Percy Sims of the Railway Department, for £34 13s. 4d., for goods alleged to have been supplied to Bettv Sims, defendant's wife. It was stated in the case that when approached the defendant said he would not pav, and also that Mrs. Sims was not his wife, but his housekeeper. Mrs. Sims gave evidence that she had been married to defendant nine years. She was first, married in California, then when she ' heard his second wife was suing for alimony she wished for another ceremonv, and this was performed in Mexico. She had been married before she met Sims who, she said, had been treating her badly. Since they.came to New Zealand she often had very little tn live on, while Sims had an income nf £2O per week,,and was allowing his second wife £2O a month still. Defending counsel claimed a verdict on a nonsuit, as the credit was given by Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., to Mrs. Sims. Derision was reserved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 7
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199LIABILITY REPUDIATED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 7
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