SON’S SEVERE ACTION
MOTHER MADE BANKRUPT. ' SEQUEL TO FAMILY DISPUTE. “It seems a dreadful thing,” said the. Chief Justice, Sir James Blair, when Walter Charles Clifford, carter, applied in the Brisbane Supreme Court recently for a sequestration order against the estate of his mother, Lena Elizabeth Clifford. The amount of the debt was £556. Mr. P. E. Copley, counsel for the son, said that ’'oth he and the solicitor had had misgivings about accepting the case. The Chief Justice: The petitioner is actually making his mother bankrupt. Mr. Copley said he recognised that it was very undesirable for a son to take such action against his mother. The petitioner had advanced the money to give the mother a home, but other members of the frmily were receiving benefits from his generosity to which he considered they were not entitled. The Chief Justice: Then it is a family reud? Mr. Copley said it was more than that. The mother was originally prepared to sign a mortgage, but she had not done so. The Chief Justice: Was the £556 lent unsecured in one sum? Mr. Copley: Yes, to pay a deposit on the home and to pay other debts for the mother at the time. In granting the sequestration order, the Chief Justice said: “I have to do my duty under the Bankruptcy Act, but I urge the son to avcid if possible taking | extreme or drastic action on this order.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 10
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