A Curious Action.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1743, 7 October 1885, Page 3

A Curious Action.

A novel cause of complaint came before a Sydney Court last week. A dray proprh tor named Haydon claimed £2OO damages liom another man for having erected en effigy of the plaintiff. The effigy was composed uf an old suit of clothes stuffed with straw, furuiountod with a dummy head wearing a felt ii.-.t- ibis description would lit one mar as will as another, but Mr Haydon took it to lepresi-nt himself because four curia were fastened to bis bat. The Court held this was not sufficient proof of indentity, probably because, ae a malter of fact, the plaintiff was not in the habit of wearing " four curls fastened to his hat.’ - If Mr Haydon bad only succeeded there would have been an end iA Wimpi'in fettiny \n AJetWpa 1 even a man’s heirs would have had good I twvxtw ov wcXvm W\w tdommvXXvft vr\\o \ proposed to commemorate the departed one's > wood. deeds, by vtusin?, w sAwlne va his Wnwwvc, ( if only there was as much diversity of opinion about the likeness as in the case of the Moorfiouse statue.