JOKE WAS ON THE WITNESS
(From "N.Z. Truth's" Invercargill Eepresentative.) . THE solemnity of the Invercargill Supreme Court was rudely disturbed during the lengthy hearing of a ,will case recently. A witness was being cross-examined on the question of the testatrix's mentality, he having stated that she was eccentric generally and incaoable of managing her business affairs. He instanced a case of the "poor old lady" having offered her farm to him. "He oould have it if she liked," she had said. Counsel: But she might have been joking. Witness: Oh, it was no x Counsel: How do you know it wasn't a joke? Witness (m all seriousness): WeM, I didn't laugh! Neither did the court — it exploded.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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