ABOUT A DIVIDEND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2103, 16 March 1920, Page 4

ABOUT A DIVIDEND.

An unusual oivil action was lliat which occupied the "attention of Mr J. Logan Stout, S.M., for some little lime last week in the Feilding Court (says the Star). Mrs "Webber, of I be Empire Hole! sued K, Davis, of Kimbollon, for £4O, the amount of the dividend paid out on Lepanto in the Hurdles at the Foil ding races on November 29th last. According to the evidence submitted, Mrs Webber gave young Davis £1 to place in the tot a lisa tor on 'War Baity in the first race, and £1 with which to back Lepanto in the second event. War Baby paid £5, and this amount Davis gave to Mrs Weber, at the same time returning Iter the other £l, with the remark that he had forgotten to take out a ticket with it in the Hurdles. Lepanto’s win was sensational —and naturally Mrs "Webber wanted that £4O odd. “I’m sorry,’’ said the forgetful one. “Not so sorry as I am.”

was the obvious retort-. Later Mrs Webber heard that a sister of Davis had d ticket on Lepanto, and that Davis himself had drawn the big dividend from the lota lisa tor. Suspicions—very. Airs Webber thought she would investigate —henge the action. \ After hearing the evidence of the defendant, his sister, and the man who had. bought the LepaWo ticket for her, and of a woman friend who had seen Davis hand the £4O odd to Miss Davis after the race, the magistrate said the evidence for the-de-fence was satisfactory. It war; evident that’Davis did not put Airs Webber’s money on Lepanto. Expenses and costs awarded against the plaintiff totalled £5 Os Od.