HUSBAND ENTICED AWAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 13

HUSBAND ENTICED AWAY

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Wife Awarded £2500 Damages i >

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LONDON, Feb. 3. A wife was awarded £2500 damages by the UJster High Court, which heard in Belfast an actiou against a wiealthy woman, a follower of the Antrim hunt, who allegedly enticed away the plain - tiff's husband. Mrs Alice Lace gave evidence that when her husband was a huntsman c»T the Antrim hunt, she noticed that Mrs Madeline Yvonne Powell, who kept hunters, a car, and servants, became too friendly with him, but, when she remonstrated, Mrs Powell became "cheeky." The alssociation continued, said plaintiff, hnd Mrs Powell and her husband spent holidays together three years running. Mrs' Powell gave the husband silk underwear, a silk dress-ing-gown, riding boots, and a motor c.ycle- Plaintiff repeatedly wrote to Mrs Powell, who once replied, threatening to thrash her if she did not leave kar alone. The hulsband lost his position in consequence of the intrigue. She had recently found him living at Drogheda with Mrs PowelL The Judge said that the jury Should not give cheeseparjng damages. Mrs Powell had eommitted an outrageous wrong by taking the husband and ending a long and happy married life.