PERJURY ALLEGED IN PROPERTY ACTION
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(By Telegraph-
W BDDIJN GrTQN, This Day. Before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court, Annie Newham and Clara Rowlett, spinsters, brought a motion for a new trial of a property action in which Hart Spear, a letired eye specialist, obtained judgment for £141 12/-. The ground of the motion is an allfegation that judgment was obtained, or the result of the trial affected, by plaintiff's perjury in swearing that after a tenant left a flat was vacant for about six months before it was converted into two flats. It is alleged that the tenant left on April 19, 1932, and the flat was made into two flats between April 19 and May 28, and one portion of the house was oc&upied from about May 28, 1932, until March, 1934. The original claim arose from damage allegedly cauSed by water diverted from ona property to the other. Counsel said that judgment had not been tendred pending the hearing of the motion, and he submitted that the whole trial had been distorted out of all property by an excessive claim for (Jamages of £500 that had never had any existence in fact, and that the case had been coloured by perjury. Argument is proceeding.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 6
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