WRONGFUL DETENTION OF CAR
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Magistrate's Decision ia Waipukurua Case
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WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. The return of the car to Miss Stabler and payment of £5 for wrongful detelntion was ordered by Mr J. Miller, S.M., •in his reserved judgment in the case in which Doris Stabler, .Waipukurau, claimed from Cecil M. Payne, Waipukurau, the return. of a motor car br, alternatively, £75 18/-, together with £10 for the alleged wrongful detention and £2 a week for the use of the car from November 27, 1936, to the date of judgment. Aa defendant had paid two instalpmftfs oxl the cost of the car -since h© seized it, nothing was allowed for the use of the car. "I am not satisfied with defendant's version," said thi© Magistrat© in his judgment. "The car was brought in plaintiff's name and' I accept the statement that she was paying for it. . . Defendant fraudulently transferred the car to his own name. . . . As the car is in plaintiff's- name, the ptesumption is that she is the owner and is entitjed to possession ; the onus is on the detendant to prove otherwise."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 2
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