An Exceptional Case.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3576, 23 September 1905, Page 2

An Exceptional Case.

A HOUSE OBTA T NED BV

THREATS.

«THE LOAN OF A HUSBAND."

Sydney, Sept. 21. A remarkable case was commenced to-day in the Court of Equity. t A woman named Lucy Hine seek# to have set aside a deed transferring a valuable property to one H. T. Hen derson and his wife, alleging that the deed was obtained by means of threats of violence. Plaintift’s statement sets out that Mrs Henderson, on the ground of plaintifi’s misconduct with Henderson, followed her about, and publicly abused her. Mrs Henderson entered plaintiff’s house several times, and assaulted and threatened to kill her. Plaintiff was terrified into executing the transfer. Plaintiff admitted that she was living with Henderson, though not as his wife.

A number of letters were put in, in* dicating that plaintiff had offered inducements to Henderson, to leave his wife.

Henderson, in the course of his evidence, admitted that he was livinr with plaintiff. He gave details of a meeting between himself, his wife, and plaintiff, whereat Mrs Henderson declared she would make plaintiff pay dearly for the loan of her husband 1 She demanded a house fr«m plaintiff As (he result of this meeting the trans fer was made. His wife subsequently told him she could manage better without 'it, as she had frightened a house out of plaintiff. The defence is a denial of the charges of threats and violence, and that plaintiff made the transfer of her own free will.