Disturbing a Duke

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 14

Disturbing a Duke

Motors in Belgrade Square

Bargee's Language Outdone

In the Court of Chancery, London recently, the Duke of Westrainst asked for an injunction against Ed war ; Hayes Dashwood and Major view Beaufort to restrain them from lea'in-motor-cars standing in Lyall Belgrave Square, S.W.. with enpu 1 running and from permitting, *dtli reasonable cause, the blowing of n° •• or hooters so as to cause a nuisan 1 - to the duke’s tenants of adjacent P * mises. ; Mr. Topham, K.C., for the duke, ® Mr. Dashwood was lessee for the awand he sub-let 3 Lyall Mews to M ' Beaufort. The evidence which ; Beaufort had put in was to the eE that on November 27, 1926, he retu •- | to his flat from a ball with ®Y‘ ; . friends. There was a certain amoun - . laughing and talking. They left in- - and on his return one i tenants, Mr. Pond, put his head o the window and became abusive. £ annoyed Major Beaufort, who W Mr. Pond to come downstairs an < would give him a thrashing. A letter of complaint, added Mr. ham, was signed by eight P er : ! alleged that there was a good a shouting and laughing by men women leaving the major’s “‘in | the morning after the ball » an ® was used which, it was said, I leave a bargee speechless. , 0 • Mr. Harman, for Major J*®*** said there were a hundred * ‘‘ eV there and therefore they could n pect a paradise of quiet. . f Mr. Swords, for Mr. Dashwoo • plying to Mr. Justice Astbury, L : Dashwood would serve a no Major Beaufort that the nuisanc cease if the complaints were tr • . Mr. Harman said the evidence against his client was scandaio . he had not had an opportunity . swering. Major Beaufort, wno America, would give an underta o\tterms of the notice of motio three weeks. * Mr. Justice Astbury observea that was a wise thing to do. * tion would stand till next sitting