Spinster’s £2,800 For Divorce Promise

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 348, 1 February 1937, Page 6

Spinster’s £2,800 For Divorce Promise

A thirty-six-year-oftl spinster won t case at Liverpool Assizes' recently ir w’lich she claimed £2,892 from a yoiin£ ; larried man and his mother, alleging if ■ was given under a promise that the man would have a divorce and marry her. The jury found that the money was obi ined by fraud and undue influence, and judgment was given for £2,811. Miss Mayna Jackson, of Weld road Dirkdale, brought tho claim agains? Harold Aubrey Simpson, of Crescem r- t Ijirkdale, and his mother. Mr E. G. Ilemmei'de, K. C., for Mis: Jackson, said that for sheer effrontery "n.L lack of moral balance, the man must stand as a record in that court for many ' cars. H : s view was that if h* 1 ' ■ mid Lad money Simpson would do the j jamc thing again. I The young man must have known th? '.roman w. desperately in love with ( yet with the full knowledge of | his rr *h£r and hi’ wife he had trade:! ~i the affections of the woman.