COSTLY LITIGATION FAILS
LONDON, 14th December. lAs an outcome of a fifteen days' trial, one of the most costly of recent times, estimated at £15,000, Hayley Mornss, the Sussex millionaire, who Was the centre of a sensational trial early in December, 1927, lost his ca«e in which he sued a firm of solicitors who formerly acted for him, for negligence and breach of duty in connection, with certain divorce proceedings against his former wife. Mr. Justice Horridge, in summing up, declaredr 'Although it is quite true a man may commit crimes of a sexual character so dimeult to shock, he may still be speaking the truth." The Judge added that ■MOmss's crimes were so appalling that the Lord Chief Justice, when. Morriss appealed against his seritea.ee in connection with girls, said that it was the most appalling caae of the kind within the recollection of the Court. The jury was entitled to take this into account in this case. Applause greeted the jury's verdict.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 11
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