Her Marriage Lines

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 2

Her Marriage Lines

damages for slander were put m train. Mrs. Amundsen claimed £300 as balm to her injured feelings. ■'.-,.. Last week Mr. E. Page, S.M., heard her story, when her counsel, Mr. H. Taylor, placed Mi's. Amundsen m the box. v >•■ ' '■ . ■ . . ■' If she had. once traded at George and George's as Mrs. Hay, she wasn't a Hay any longer, for that gentleman had divorced her -months, and months ago. She had been married to Amundsen for nearly twelve months when thectrouble over the cheque cropped up. - Mr. George knew her and she had •Spoken to him on many occasions. ; Wherv George asked her to put her home address on the^back of the. cheque, she gave it as Hankey Street, as up to that time she had : not moved. • Mr; C. A. Li. TVeadwell, who appeared for defendant, George, wanted to know if Amundsen had told her not to cash the cheque as he had no funds m the bank to meet it. This was not so, she said. Goods up to that period had been purchased m the name of Hay. George, she said, did ask her about the dishonored, cheque, but she did not say her husband was trying to raise money tovmeet it. , . George did not ask her why she endorsed the cheque as Amundsen when her name was Hay. He stated it as a fact and said she was lfving with Amundsen. In fact, so irate was the worthy drape?, that he refused to look at her marriage lines, which' she happened to have with her at the time; ;; * Counsel: iMdn't you say: "You are accusing me of hot being married and of committing; forgery?— Yes, after he