CLAIM FAILS
INFANTS SUE C HATHAMS £ NATIVE v 1 Per Press Association. { } WELLINGTON, July IS. Claiming £5O which they alleged,’l they paid Emma Hensen, aboriginal : native, by way of deposit lor a piece i of land in the Chathams, E. and J. Hough, infan.s, recently sued by their t next friend for recovery of that t amount from the Public Trustee, am. t the magistrate. Mr. J. H. Luxford, m a judgment, .said the plaintiffs must be ■' non-suited and the next friend ordered t to pay costs according to scale. i He said the onus was on tile plain- i tiffs to prove that the land they agreed to buy had no tangible value, < and this they had failed to do. They i also failed on the ground that, they had not proved they paid any money ( at all to Mrs. Hensen. t —: - i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 8
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144CLAIM FAILS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 8
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